Boston Scientific Shockless Implant Evaluation (SIMPLE) Study Results Presented at Heart Rhythm 2014, the Heart Rhythm Society's 35th Annual Scientific Sessions The trial results demonstrated that ...

KNOXVILLE -- Tennessee senior associate athletic trainer Chad Newman has reported that basketball player Emmanuel Negedu had a sub-pectoral implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) implanted in his ...

Background Advances in implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) technology have resulted in more effective defibrillation, and the need for defibrillation threshold (DFT) testing has been ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Longer lengths of stay, increased cost per case and a greater number of procedures with anesthesiologists or ...

If you’re at risk for sudden cardiac arrest, an implantable cardioverter defibrillator — a small, battery-operated device that resides in your chest to detect abnormal heart rhythms — can deliver a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than 22% of patients in a retrospective cohort study received a non-evidence-based implantation of an ...

VF is induced at ICD implantation to assess: (1) electrical integrity of the connections between leads and pulse generator; (2) reliable sensing, detection, and redetection in VF; and (3) optimal, or ...

LONGVIEW, TX (KLTV) - A Longview Regional Medical Center electrophysiologist, today announced the first in the Longview, as well as the East Texas Region to implant the Current® Plus implantable ...

The recalled Sprint Fidelis implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) leads failed more often in younger patients, women, and individuals with hereditary heart disease, according to a multi-center ...

KUALA LUMPUR: National Heart Institute (IJN) has achieved another milestone by becoming the first in Southeast Asia to successfully implant a pioneering extravascular implantable defibrillator (ICD) ...