For more than 70 years patients have received pacemakers to help regulate their hearts should they drop below a safe threshold, a condition called bradycardia. Treatment has radically evolved over the years with pacemakers originally consisting of bulky boxes that were plugged into walls. Medtronic set out to change innovation in this space with the recent launch of a miniaturized pacemaker called the Micra TPS, a completely self-contained device which is the size of a large vitamin.
