Abbott is teaming up with AtaCor Medical to develop a next-generation implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) designed ...

A Fort Worth hospital is participating in an international study to help more people survive cardiac arrest.

Cardiac device therapy has significantly evolved since the introduction of the first implantable pacemaker and the subsequent ...

There are unique technical issues that must be considered with the implantation of devices in small patients and those with CHD. Although most centers report low complication rates of complications in ...

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 ...

Almost exactly a year after beginning a recall of some of its implantable defibrillator devices that were found to potentially emit electrical pulses below their programmed strength, Medtronic has ...

Is the routine implantation of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) in myocardial infarction survivors with heart failure still an adequate therapy for prevention of sudden cardiac death?

Presenter: Stuart J. Connolly, MD, McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA) and Stefan H. Hohnloser, MD, J.W. Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany) Large randomized clinical trials have ...

Read full article: 3 men shot outside Northside convenience store after fight BALTIMORE – Dr. Morton Mower, a former Maryland-based cardiologist who helped invent an automatic implantable ...

BALTIMORE – Dr. Morton Mower, a former Maryland-based cardiologist who helped invent an automatic implantable defibrillator that has helped countless heart patients live longer and healthier, has died ...