Sorin Group received the CE Mark and is launching in Europe its new REPLY 200 line of cardiac pacemakers. The REPLY 200 SR and DR pacemakers monitor ventilation and provide reports on sleep disturbance with the Sleep Apnea Monitoring (SAM) feature. The company hopes that these devices will make sleep monitoring, which is otherwise done using polysomnography, an expensive and time consuming method, more common among patients with cardiac implants.
At only 8cc, these are the smallest pacemakers in the world with a twelve year lifespan.