Avery Biomedical Devices, Inc.

The Avery Breathing Pacemaker System is a phrenic nerve stimulator, also called a diaphragm pacemaker. It consists of surgically implanted receivers and electrodes mated to an external transmitter by antennas worn over the implanted receivers. Phrenic pacing provides ventilatory support for patients with chronic respiratory insufficiency whose diaphragm, lungs, and phrenic nerves have residual function.

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phrenic nerve stimulator, diaphragm pacemaker, spinal cord injury, central hypoventilation syndrome, congenital central hypoventilation syndrome