Omni-Stanicor Lithium-Powered Programmable Cardiac Pacer
name: label: maker
content: Cordis Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The Cordis Corp. was making synchronous pacemakers by 1966, and donated this example to the Smithsonian in 1979. The inscription reads “Omni-Stanicor / R-Wave Inhibited / Programmable Cardiac Pacer / 162D-58559 / Cordis / Miami, Florida, U.S.A.” Cordis sold its pacemaker unit to Teletronics Holdings, Ltd., of Sydney, Australia in 1987. The following year it pled guilty to having sold thousands of defective units.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Florida, Miami
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Cordis Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0374.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.0374
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0374.01
label: serial number
content: 190A-34276
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pacemaker
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: pacemaker
label: Other Terms
content: Pacemaker; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 in x 2 1/4 in x 7/8 in; 6.6675 cm x 5.715 cm x 2.2225 cm