Guidant Corporation is engaged in the design and manufacture of cardiovascular medical products. It is operating as a part off Boston Scientific and Abbott Labs, manufacturing artificial cardiac pacemakers,implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, stents, and more. Its medical devices help patients with heart diseases in returning to active and productive lives and physicians for improving patient management and clinical outcomes. Guidant Corporation is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana and was founded in 1994.