Colombiano Inventor del Marcapasos
INVENTOR
OF THE PACEMAKER.
This
Bogota scientist masters cardiac electrophysics and biomedical engineering; is
recognized worldwide as the inventor of the external artificial pacemaker, with
internal electrodes, which for 53 years has been a great contribution to
humanity since it changed the life of infinity of heart patients in the world.
He has been conferred three honorary doctorates in Medicine. And again today is
world news, after announcing his new invention: the AV Bridge
(atrium-ventricle), tiny pacemaker (nano pacemaker), which measures "a
third of a grain of rice", and whose price will be one tenth of the
current ones. The new heart rate regulation system will be worth only $ 2,000,
will be implanted through outpatient surgery that lasts twenty minutes, and
will benefit millions of people.
The Professor Reynolds graduated
from Trinity College, Cambridge, England, and has been dedicated, for over
fifty years, to cardiac electrophysiology; It has been admired by astronauts,
scientists and even Nobel laureates. He is a founding member of several scientific
societies and belongs to 42, among them the New York Academy of Sciences. He
was the only Colombian student of the genius Albert Einstein, who developed the
theory of relativity.
The difference between the first
pacemaker of Professor Reynolds, used today, and his nano pacemaker is that of
an initial device that weighed 45 kilos and used a car battery, in its second
evolution happened to have the size of three 500 peso coins (one over another);
and in its third, that is, its current version, has been reduced to a minuscule
size with the help of nanotechnology and also need no battery because it takes
advantage of the contractions of the heart as a source of energy that feeds the
electronic circuit. In addition, it will be easily implanted with ambulatory
surgery by means of GPS, and it will be able to be interconnected with the cell
phone of the doctor who will be able to see and interact from where the nano
pacemaker is, by computer and Internet.
Professor Reynolds has worked on
his invention for more than eleven years, and leads the Heart Tracking Research
Group, via satellite, supported by the Taiwan Institute of Technology,
scientific institutions of Japan, China, England and the United States and by
various universities of the world.
Dr. Jorge Reynolds was born in
Bogotá in 1936. At just 21 he developed the first external artificial pacemaker
with internal electrodes, an instrument that has saved the lives of more than
75 million people in the world.
It is surprising to be in front
of a scientist who was a bad student. His run through seven schools did not
predict the intellectual level he would have at Trinity College in Cambridge,
England, where he was awarded a scholarship since the first semester and where
he graduated as an electronic engineer and met Albert Einstein as a teacher.
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