Multiple societies covering cardiovascular medicine, electrophysiology, heart failure, and imaging have released updated appropriate use criteria (AUC) for various cardiac implantable electronic ...

Soccer player Christian Eriksen is to have an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) device fitted, the Danish football federation has said. Eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed on ...

The indications for ICD implantation continue to expand; however, these devices are associated with complications related to the implantation procedure itself and morbidity caused by the normal and ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Another first for Lansing institutions: Sparrow has become the first health system (and hospital) in Michigan to have implanted a new, life-saving defibrillator for heart ...

Physicians who receive money from manufacturers of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillators (CRT-Ds)—for activities as diverse as consulting, ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this 12-part journey through a disease state ...

Implantable devices have been used for decades to treat heart disease. The first pacemaker was implanted over 40 years ago, and implantable defibrillators were first used in the early 1980s. But the ...

A study of heart failure patients who meet national guidelines for devices that stabilize and strengthen the heart's electrical system found that only half of eligible patients received the devices.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) -Local doctors are among the first in the nation to use a new, implantable device to help save lives. It helps keep the heart beating strong. This new device could help reduce the ...

Every year millions of people die or are affected by heart diseases that target different organs in the body. Christopher Melvin Canada is a survivor of one of these heart diseases. In 2012, he was ...

It’s possible to transmit life-threatening signals to implanted medical devices with no prior knowledge of how the devices work, researchers in Belgium and the U.K. have demonstrated. By intercepting ...