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OBITUARY
Anthony Francis Rickards
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Tony Rickards was one of the most skilled cardiologists of his generation, combining major intellectual and technical ability with great manual dexterity, making it possible for him to contribute to many aspects of the treatment of heart disease.
In the early 1980s he was responsible for one of the relatively few major advances in the technology of pacemakers since their introduction in the late 1950s, the introduction of the physiologically adaptive pacemaker. The first unit harnessing this principle was implanted in 1982 and spawned the concept that is part of nearly all pacemakers implanted today. The abstract from his classic manuscript describing this concept, published in this journal in 1981, is reprinted below.
The original idea for the pacemaker came to him while flying back from a cardiology conference in the USA. Back in England a prototype was developed but no opportunity to use it arose until an unfortunate patient
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