Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . DENVER — Patients with indications for implantable cardioverter defibrillators and wide QRS durations derived no ...
ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 25, 2004--St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) announced today U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and first implants of the Frontier(TM) II ...
Looking at a large cohort of patients undergoing various types of open heart surgery, investigators have provided contemporary data that can be used to inform patients about the risks of cardiac ...
The human heart has a natural pacemaker in the sinus node or the sinoatrial node, which is a group of cells that trigger electrical signals to stimulate the rhythmic contraction of the heart. In 1958, ...
Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2006;29(1):70-96. R-wave double-counting may result in shocks for SVT slower than the programmed VT detection interval because alternate device-detected intervals ...
Healio and Cardiology Today have compiled a list of the top news from the virtual Heart Rhythm Society Annual Scientific Sessions. Readers were most interested in radiation treatment for ventricular ...
You may have heard of two little devices that doctors use to help treat heart problems: pacemakers and ICDs (implantable cardioverter defibrillators). They use them when you have a type of heart ...
How long do pacemakers (and also internal cardiac defibrillators or ICDs) typically last and what causes the system’s lead wires to fail? The pacemaker or ICD unit, which is the implanted box or ...
Concerns that electromagnetic interference from standard airport metal detectors could adversely affect the pacing and sensing functions of pacemakers (PMs) and implantable cardioverter defibrillators ...