PATIENT-INSPIRED INNOVATION Meaningful Innovation

GREATER CHOICE IN PAIN MANAGEMENT
Through medical technology, collaboration, and awareness

Because patients deserve pain management options as an alternative or adjunct to systemic opioids, we are:

• Leveraging our capabilities and product portfolio to address the unmet needs of pain patients
• Providing support to those working on the prevention and treatment of prescription opioid misuse, addiction, and overdose
• Educating payers, policymakers, and regulators to enable greater patient access to medical devices shown to alleviate pain

WORLD’S SMALLEST PACEMAKER
Size allows minimally invasive approach

What motivated our engineers to develop the world's smallest pacemaker? Patients.

• The Micra pacemaker is about one-tenth the size of traditional pacemakers.
• Doctors can place the pacemaker into the heart using a minimally invasive approach, without wires running from the chest to the heart required by other pacemakers.

BETTER MANAGEMENT OF DIABETES
Sophisticated algorithm helps patients monitor blood sugar levels

Medtronic scientists toiled for years, laser focused on a diabetic patient's need to monitor blood sugar. Focus, tenacity, and math skills paid off when they produced an algorithm that:

• Controls the flow of insulin, adjusting to individual needs
• Was programmed inside the Medtronic MiniMed 670G system — the world’s first hybrid close looped insulin delivery system

SPINAL CORD STIMULATOR TO HELP WITH CHRONIC PAIN
Embedded technology provides actionable data

The newest Medtronic spinal cord stimulator helps physicians design an innovative treatment plan for chronic pain patients.

• Embedded technology collects quantitative data on a patient’s physical position.
• The data can then be correlated with the patient’s subjective report of pain levels.
• The device can modify the amount of stimulation patients receive, depending on the pain they’re experiencing in different positions.

MINIMALLY INVASIVE TECHNIQUE TO REPLACE AORTIC HEART VALVES
Self-expandable valve, deployed without open heart surgery

Many patients are not good candidates for open-heart surgery. Read about one such patient, Ron.

• Ron was diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis.
• A cardiothoracic surgeon replaced Ron's heart valve using a minimally invasive approach developed by Medtronic.

DIGITAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS FOR CHRONIC DISEASE
Patient-centered healthcare powered by technology

Opened in 2015, the Medtronic Applied Innovation Lab sparks ideas to improve healthcare by:

• Bringing together patients, clinicians, and IT professionals to share issues and solutions
• Looking at how IT can help patients and clinicians better manage disease

MEDTRONIC PATENTS
Patient-centered healthcare innovation

Find United States patent information on products manufactured by our business units — Minimally Invasive Therapies, Cardiac and Vascular, Diabetes, and Restorative Therapies.