Introduction

Many people have had pacemakers successfully implanted in their chest cavity.  This has extended their lives for several years by preventing life threatening heart attacks. Some patients still die because their heart just stops beating.  Components making up the micro-circuits that drive the pacemaker have dramatically shrunk in size. This has allowed medical designers to now design in a defibrillator along with the pacemaker circuitry. Now if a patient’s heart stops, the defibrillator will shock the heart back into operation. MEDER’s micro-miniature reed switch is one of the key components that have helped make this dual function approach possible.

Full application write-up: MEMS reed switch used in Implantable Pacemakers