Medtronic EnPulse Pacemaker, Model E2DR01
date: label: date made
content: after 2004
label: FDA pre-market approval
content: 2004-02-20
name: label: maker
content: Medtronic
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The EnPulse Pacemaker is a small oval-shaped device which delivers electrical pluses to the heart muscle to treat irregular, interrupted, or slow heart rhythms.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Pacemakers are implanted under the skin below the collarbone. The electrical leads are threaded into the heart. The EnPluse is an on demand pacing system which adjusts electrical pluses to the heart based on the patient’s routine activities such as climbing stairs.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Pacemakers were created for patients who experienced Stokes - Adams syndrome; a loss of consciousness due to a change in the hearts rhythm or complete or partial heart block and an abnormal heart block resulting from open heart surgery. The first implantable pacemaker was developed by Wilson Greatbatch (1919-2011) and implanted in 1960 by Dr. William Chardack at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Buffalo, New York.
label: Description
content: Pacemaker with a “Medtronic / EnPulse / E2DR01 DDDR / SN PNB200113Q” inscription. Medtronic introduced the term “EnPulse” to commerce in 2003.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Minnesota, Minneapolis
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Medtronic, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0031.03
label: serial number
content: PNB200113Q
label: accession number
content: 2014.0031
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0031.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: pacemaker
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.5 cm x 5.8 cm x .9 cm; 2 5/32 in x 2 9/32 in x 11/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 1 7/8 in x 1 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 4.7625 cm x 4.445 cm