Updated February 24, 2017. The mean or average birth weight in the United States is about 3,389g or 7 lb, 7.5 oz. However, any birth weight of a term newborn between 5 lbs, 8 oz and 8 lbs, 13 oz is considered to be normal. Baby Birth Weight Statistics.
Development of coronary stents. WALLSTENTÂ® (Schneider AG), a self-expanding, stainless steel wire-mesh structure, was the first coronary stent implanted in a human coronary artery by Sigwart et al. in 1986.
Early Heart Pacemaker Canadian, John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker. Hopps was trained as an electrical engineer at the University of Manitoba and joined the National Research Council in 1941, where he conducted research on hypothermia.his lead to Hopps' invention of the world's first cardiac pacemaker in 1950. His device was far too large to be implanted inside of the human body. It was an external pacemaker.