Guam Memorial Hospital Authority said it performed its first-ever implantable cardioverter defibrillator procedure, a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A novel adhesive-based wearable cardioverter defibrillator exceeded its safety and efficacy performance goals.

Background: Although more than 150,000 implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are implanted yearly worldwide, only few studies systematically examined complications of ICD therapy in large ...

Cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) constitute a major breakthrough in the management of heart rhythm disorders. These devices largely include bradycardia pacemakers, biventricular ...

Few medical therapies pose the issue of how to avoid sudden cardiac death as starkly as does the implantable cardioverter defibrillator — a device that is implanted like a pacemaker, which has been ...

Heart failure is a deadly disease. Every year, tens of thousands of patients die from this condition, many of them suddenly. Efforts aimed at reducing mortality centered initially on antagonizing the ...

Implantable cardioverter defibrillators are devices implanted in a patient’s chest with the ability to terminate ventricular arrhythmias. Termination of these ventricular arrhythmias is vital to ...

Sanjeev Bhatti gratefully calls Aug. 16 the day “I got my life back.” That day, the Brampton husband and father of two, 50, underwent potentially life-saving surgery at Brampton Civic Hospital of an ...