Morton Mower Helped Create Device to Prevent Cardiac Arrest

By James R. Hagerty

May. 6, 2022 11:50 am ET

In the basement of Baltimore’s Sinai Hospital, Michel Mirowski and Morton Mower began working in the late 1960s on a project that struck some of their colleagues as lunacy.

The two cardiologists’ goal was to perfect a battery-powered device to implant in human chests and give the heart a shock whenever an irregular heartbeat threatened to cause sudden death.

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