A new Canadian study reports an alternative way to connect leads to cardiac defibrillators. Leads are special connectors or wires that deliver energy from an implantable cardioverter defibrillator ...

Clever design, close attention to human safety issues, and a top man-machine interface make the Philips HeartStart portable home defibrillator one of the hottest medical electronics devices on the ...

Medtronic's extravascular implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (EV-ICD) may have a mermaid's name, but when the company's R&D team began the project, it was another fictional character that came to ...

An injection-molded case turned out to be a major challenge in bringing a new portable automated external defibrillator (AED) to market. The resiliency and flow of EstaGrip TPE make it a good choice ...