Omission of defibrillation testing did not significantly affect mortality or shock efficacy in most recipients of ...

Your heart’s job is to keep your pulse steady to pump blood throughout your body. Sometimes your heart rate is slower when ...

Developed by engineers from Northwestern University, the pacemaker is the size of a grain of rice and could help save babies born with heart defects.

What Is an ICD? Like a pacemaker, an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, or ICD, is a device placed under your skin. It also contains a computer that tracks your heart rate and rhythm.

Pacemaker (PM) and implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) recalls and safety alerts (collectively referred to as "advisories") occur frequently, affect many patients, and are increasing in ...

Glucotrack, which is developing a glucose monitor that is implanted through a minimally invasive surgery, said the small ...

Pacemakers, battery-powered devices implanted near the collarbone since the 1950s, manage arrhythmias with multi-site pacing and rate responsiveness. AI and cloud tech improve monitoring, while ICDs ...

During an average lifetime, the heart beats more than 2 billion times. To you, it might just be a steady "lub-dub" that speeds up under pressure and slows as you drift to sleep. But behind that ...

Tennessee death row prisoner Byron Black has filed a motion to deactivate his implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) at ...

An active implantable medical device (AIMD) is an implantable device that uses an external power source. This is normally electricity to work. A common example of an AIMD is a pacemaker. Nerve ...

Right-heart valve deterioration traced to pacing type, revealing distinct tricuspid vulnerability with right-ventricular lead ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Byron Black are asking a judge to step in ahead of his scheduled execution, arguing that a ...