Rune Elmqvist

Senning, Elmqvist & Crafoord (from left to right)

Rune Elmqvist (born December 1, 1906 in Lund ; † December 15, 1996 there ) was a Swedish engineer and inventor.

Elmqvist developed the first implantable cardiac pacemaker in collaboration with the surgeon Åke Senning and was instrumental in the first implantation of a cardiac pacemaker on October 8, 1958 in the patient Arne Larsson.

Elmqvist is primarily to be seen as an engineer and inventor. Although he had studied medicine, he did not work as a practicing doctor on a permanent basis. In 1931, while working at Lund University Hospital , he built a multi-channel EKG . In 1948 he finally succeeded in developing the so-called mingograph , the first EKG inkjet printer, at Elema-Schönander .

literature

Primary literature

• Rune Elmqvist, Åke Senning: An implantable pacemaker for the heart . In: CN Smyth (Ed.): Medical electronics: Proceedings of the second international conference on medical electronics, Paris, June 1959 . London 1960.

Secondary literature

• Ingvar Karlof, Seymour Furman: Rune Elmqvist, MD 1906 to 1996 . In: Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology . tape 20 , no. 4 , 1997, ISSN  0147-8389 , p. 1002 .
• Kirk Jeffrey: Elmqvist, Senning, and the rechargeable pacemaker . In: Machines in Our Hearts: The Cardiac Pacemaker, the Implantable Defibrillator, and American Health Care . JHU Press, Baltimore, Maryland 2001, ISBN 978-0-8018-6579-4 , pp. 90-92 .
• Berndt Lüderitz: Profiles in Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology. Blackwell Pub., Malden, Mass., 2005, ISBN 978-1-4051-3116-2 , p. 30.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tom Kenny: The Nuts and Bolts of Cardiac Pacing . Blackwell Publishing, 2005, ISBN 978-1-4051-3297-8 , pp. 28 (English).
2. ^ Dean Jenkins: A (not so) brief history of electrocardiography. In: Electrocardiogram (ECG, EKG) library. Dean Jenkins, Stephen Gerred, January 3, 2006, accessed August 26, 2008 (English, entry in the timeline in 1948).