- Industry: Medical devices
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Boston Scientific Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices used in various interventional medical specialties worldwide.
The blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood from the aorta to the heart muscle. There are three major coronary arteries: the right coronary artery, the left anterior descending artery, and the circumflex artery.
Industry:Medical devices
The termination of a fast, erratic, and often fatal heart rate by delivering a high-energy electrical shock to restore the heart's normal rhythm. A shock is administered through electrodes placed on the chest (external defibrillation) or in the heart (internal defibrillation).
Industry:Medical devices
A device that delivers an electric shock to stop extremely rapid and irregular heartbeats and return the heart to normal rhythm. Can be external or implanted in the body.
Industry:Medical devices
Blood low in oxygen returning from the body tissues to the heart for circulation through the lungs, where it becomes oxygenated.
Industry:Medical devices
A disease in which the body doesn't produce or properly use insulin. Insulin is needed to convert sugar and starch into the energy needed in daily life. The full name for this condition is diabetes mellitus.
Industry:Medical devices
Simulation of the phrenic nerve or diaphragm by a pacing output pulse, causing a hiccough-like reaction.
Industry:Medical devices
The lowest blood pressure, measured in the arteries when the heart muscle is relaxed between beats. Diastole is the phase of the cardiac system where the heart rests.
Industry:Medical devices
A noninvasive test using sound waves to evaluate blood flow in the heart or blood vessels.
Industry:Medical devices
A non-invasive test that records a sound wave picture of the heart and gives information about the heart valves and the function of the heart's muscular walls. An echo test can also measure ejection fraction (how efficiently the heart is pumping with each contraction).
Industry:Medical devices
