Albert Salisbury Hyman (1893 - 1972), a Harvard-trained New York cardiologist, together with his brother Charles, constructed in 1930-1932 an electromechanical device which was one of the earliest artificial pacemakers. The device was reportedly tested on experiment animals and at least one human patient.[1][2]
The first artificial pacemaker was invented by Australian anaesthesiologist Dr Mark C Lidwell. He used it to resuscitate a newborn baby at the Crown Street Women's Hospital, Sydney in 1926. However, Hyman used and popularised the term "artificial pacemaker," which remains in use today.[3][4]
Lidwell did not patent his invention and remained anonymous for many years to avoid public controversy. Hyman's machine did not gain general acceptance from the medical community, which opposed him in his attempts to popularise the use of his version of the invention.[4]
References
edit- ^ Furman, Seymour; Szarka, George; Layvand, Dmitriy (May 2005). "Reconstruction of Hyman's Second Pacemaker". Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology. 28 (5): 446–453. doi:10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.09542.x.
- ^ "ALBERT HYMAN, 79, CARDIOLOGIST, DIES". The New York Times. 1972-12-09. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
- ^ "Tribute to: The Pacemaker". The New Inventors website. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 1983. Archived from the original on 2009-04-12. Retrieved 2007-07-12.
- ^ a b Aquilina O, "A brief history of cardiac pacing Archived 2007-05-17 at the Wayback Machine", Images Paediatr Cardiol 27 (2006), pp.17-81.
External links
edit- Timeline of great achievements
- "Beating of Heart Is Revived by Electrified Needle" Popular Mechanics, March 1933—bottom of page 360
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