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Reuters says it is the first American but Yahoo! changed it to a World first.
http://blogs.bmj.com/case-reports/2009/08/11/first-internet-connected-pacemaker/
Nope just checked. The Germans did it years ago. http://europace.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/10/2/164 Are Reuters the best placed to judge medical firsts?
See a lot of these "first" medical procedures usually originating in some press release from a clinic specialising in that particular area of treatment -- and wanting to promote their groundbreaking techniques. But are they the first?
At BMJ Case Reports we published a case of a web-connected implantable cardioverter defibrillator detecting digoxin toxicity a few months ago. An implantable cardioverter defibrillator is not a pacemaker of course but usually includes a quite sophisticated one along with the ability to do the DC shock.
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Reuters says it is the first American but Yahoo! changed it to a World first.
http://blogs.bmj.com/case-reports/2009/08/11/first-internet-connected-pacemaker/
Nope just checked. The Germans did it years ago. http://europace.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/10/2/164 Are Reuters the best placed to judge medical firsts?
See a lot of these "first" medical procedures usually originating in some press release from a clinic specialising in that particular area of treatment -- and wanting to promote their groundbreaking techniques. But are they the first?
At BMJ Case Reports we published a case of a web-connected implantable cardioverter defibrillator detecting digoxin toxicity a few months ago. An implantable cardioverter defibrillator is not a pacemaker of course but usually includes a quite sophisticated one along with the ability to do the DC shock.