New, Smaller Pacemaker Installed for First Time in SoCal
![Scripps Memorial Hospital installed, for the first time in Southern California, a wireless pacemaker.](http://www.scripps.org/sparkle-assets/images/news-pr-pacemaker-elderly-men-talking-600x375.jpg)
A new medical advancement in wireless pacemakers was installed for the first time in Southern California into an 83-year-old patient at San Diego’s Scripps Memorial Hospital.
The wireless device, called Nanostim, is one-tenth the size of a traditional pacemaker.
To learn more about the Nanostim, watch NBC 7’s story New, Smaller Pacemaker Installed for First Time in SoCal.
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