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 ...

Prophylactic, substrate-guided ablation of LV scars reduced the risk for subsequent VT in patients with ICDs for post-MI arrhythmias. Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy reduces ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee is set to execute an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, as uncertainty lingers about whether the device will shock his heart when a lethal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This undated booking photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Corrections shows Byron Black. (Tennessee Department of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee is gearing up for an execution on Tuesday that experts say would likely mark the first time a man has been put to death with a working defibrillator in his chest. Gov ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee executed an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his heart when the lethal chemicals ...

A man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s said he was "hurting so bad" while he was given a lethal injection Tuesday in Tennessee, where authorities had ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, the state's high court ruled on Thursday. The ruling overturns a lower court's ...