Artificial Cardiac Pacemaker

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Artificial Cardiac Pacemaker

Want & Need

In my opinion, a pacemaker is both

NEED: Doctor says you need to get one because your heart cannot take the strain

NEED:Health scare you might need a pacemaker

NEED:Someone who has had a heart attack might need surgery to get a pacemaker to survive

WANT:People who have early onsetting heart problems might want a pacemaker

Industrial Invention

pacemakers were distributed throughout the world

it was made in a huge factory

Facts

The smallest pacemaker in the world is the size of a vitamin pill.

Pacemakers are known as mini defibrillators because they start your heart when it stops.

Pacemakers can save your life without you even knowing.

in 2020 The average pacemaker lasts from 5 to 15 years in your body.

Informal Invention

It is recently not needed to be made in a huge industrial manufacturing factory.

modern pacemaker is part of the informational invention

Six Hats

Green hat

Thought of how to help people by creating a human life-altering invention

Growth mindset

Grew from past ideas

Asked himself “how else can this be done”

White hat

he had no emotion and was all work-based

He thought like a computer

Very fact-based.

He asked questions.

Invented

Rune was born in 1906 and died in 1996

Invented in 1958 by Rune Elmqvist