Trinity Health Ann Arbor has completed Michigan’s first implant of the world’s smallest device designed to help treat dangerous heart rhythm disorders.
The defibrillation lead is a thin wire that connects an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) to the heart. The connection allows the ICD to monitor heart rhythms and deliver gentle pacing or a life-saving shock if a patient’s heart beats dangerously fast or stops suddenly.
At just under 1.6 millimeters wide, the FDA-approved OmniaSecure defibrillation lead from Medtronic is guided through a vein and placed in the heart’s right ventricle using a minimally invasive catheter-based procedure…