143 Fixation of a Cardiac LeadlessPacemaker

Team Members

Jacob Bjorn, Ethan Holley, William Weiner, Alyssa Hartman, Laura Lynch, and Rachel Morrison, Biomedical Engineering

Advisor

Jingfeng Jiang, Biomedical Engineering

Sponsor

Boston Scientific

Project Overview

Boston Scientific tasked our team with designing, building, and testing a fixation mechanism for a leadless pacing device. This wireless pacemaker is to be attached on the interior endocardial surface of the right ventricle of the heart. The

mechanism must stay fixated without risking device detachment, which could cause embolization and pulmonary infarction, and it must be removable at

the end of the service life. The fixation mechanism can neither add to the diameter of the device nor take up vital space inside the pacemaker that could be used as battery space. Michigan Tech Biomedical Engineering Senior Design Teams 2014

Done