Word: chests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This has been done in many hospitals with cabinet-type pacemakers weighing up to 50 Ibs. At first the current was applied externally, to the chest skin. Then Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, famed open-heart surgeon of the University of Minnesota Hospitals, got the idea of implanting the electrode directly in the muscle of the heart wall...