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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheBigNewt" data-source="post: 1677369" data-attributes="member: 380756"><p>I'm trying to think why anyone would benefit from a "remote controlled pacemaker". Having implanted a few hundred Medtronic pacers and defibrillators I'm not sure I'd want to remotely reprogram one. Yes, it's been possible for years to remotely interrogate them using a home transmitter (plugged into a land line usually). And yes a defibrillator that goes "boom" in the middle of the night will ring up a monitoring service in another state who will subsequently send an ambulance to the guy's house who got shocked in his sleep. But remote programming??? FWIW I think the "artificial pancreas" has been dangled in front of Type 1 diabetics so long we're getting tired of it to be honest. Yeah, I know, it can kinda sorta be done. Sorta. With a quasi-gerryrigged system that you gotta watch like a hawk. What we want is like a knee replacement. New pancreas without the rehab. Right? Fill 'er up with insulin and head to ColdStone!</p></blockquote><p></p>

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