Arne Larsson | |
Birth Name: | Arne Larsson |
Birth Date: | 26 May 1915 |
Birth Place: | Skultuna, Sweden |
Death Place: | Nacka, Sweden |
Nationality: | Swedish |
Known For: | The first patient who depended on an artificial cardiac pacemaker |
Arne Larsson (26 May 1915[1] - 28 December 2001) was the first patient to receive an artificial cardiac pacemaker. The first two pacemakers were implanted by Åke Senning in 1958. Arne lived for another forty-three years and during that time went through twenty-six pacemakers.[2]
He died from melanoma on 28 December 2001 after being diagnosed two years prior.[3]