Rune Elmqvist

Rune Elmqvist (* 1906, † 1996) was a Swedish engineer and inventor.

Elmqvist developed the first implantable pacemaker in collaboration with the surgeon Åke Senning and was instrumental in the first implantation of a pacemaker on October 8, 1958 in the patient Arne Larsson ..

Elmqvist is seen primarily as an engineer and inventor, although he had studied, durable but not exercised the activity of a practicing physician medicine. During his tenure at the University Hospital of Lund in 1931 he built a multi-channel ECG. 1948 finally at the company Elema - Schönander he managed the development of the so-called Mingograph, the first ECG inkjet printer.