††A pacemaker is a medical device used to correct irregular heart movements with electrical impulses. It delivers minute electric shocks to the heart muscles to restore a normal heartbeat.
An external pacemaker was first developed in 1958 by Clarence Walton Lillehei. This achievement was swiftly followed by Ake Senning's version in 1959, which could be implanted inside the body. This freed the patient from the burden of caring for an external device.
Today's pacemakers are very small and powered by batteries which might last as long as ten years. This means that the user's quality of life has every chance of being restored to a normal level.
