BIOTRONIK Blog

How Timo Turned a Life-Changing Diagnosis into a Mission to Help Others

How Georg found his way back to life after cardiac arrest and gained greater peace of mind in everyday life.

For many people, a brief dizzy spell, heart flutter, or even a fainting episode seems easy to explain away. Stress, lack of sleep, a busy lifestyle. Oliver thought the same, until a second incident showed him how serious the consequences can be.

What if your cardiologist could spot a problem before you feel it? In 2000, BIOTRONIK made that vision real. With the launch of BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring®, the world’s first telemedicine system for remote follow-up of cardiac implant patients, we helped change how physicians care for people.

How New Strategies Move Beyond Simple AF Detection to Focus on Reducing AF Burden and Monitoring Disease Progression

Biotronik’s Chief Procurement Officer Takes a Look at the New Statutory Regulations

Around 49 million people in the EU suffer from cardiovascular diseases. Here, Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) accounts for the major share of the diseases. In this context, narrowing of vessels by atherosclerotic processes is closely linked to an unhealthy lifestyle. This was also the case for the North Rhine-Westphalian deacon Rainer Beerhenke. After successful stent placement and a bypass surgery in 2021, the 58-year-old is again living life to the full and is one of the first patients to take part in the EU-funded TIMELY project, which aims to improve the range of therapies for CAD patients.

Rolf Opuchlich has been with the BIOTRONIK Quality Team since 1997. In 2020, he received his own device. Despite knowing just about everything there is to know about the defibrillator he now wears, on his first vacation after getting his implant he was still a bit restless. “I was fairly nervous that first time,” says Rolf looking back at his first flight with his ICD after implantation. “Even though I know our devices well and had everything I needed with me.”