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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 16, 2026

Clinical experiences with a new implantable demand pacemaker.

HARKEN, Dwight Emary (1910 – 1993) Wikipedia
MATLOFF, Jack Morton (1933 – 2015) annalsthoracicsurgery.org
BERKOVITS, Barouh (1926 – 2012) Wikipedia
& et al.

Publication Details

Am. J. Cardiol., 20, 232-238. 1967 CE.

Harken and colleagues reported "the first clinical use of an implantable noncompetitive pacer" (Jeffrey, Machines in Our Hearts. Baltimore, 2001, 134.) Berkovits, an engineer working for Medtronic, was an inventor of the device.

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#12242
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/14456
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLclinical-experiences-with-a-new-implantable-demand-pacemaker

Geographic Context

Mentioned in annotation: Baltimore, MD