medical-technology
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Inventions
The Defibrillator: From Open-Chest Surgery to the Box on Every Airport Wall — SciHub101
Claude Beck saved a life with open-chest paddles in 1947. Bernard Lown made it safe in 1962. Frank Pantridge put it in an ambulance in 1965. Today, a smartwatch can detect the arrhythmia that kills 350,000 Americans a year.