Researchers have evaluated the possibility of alerting drones equipped with automated external defibrillators (AED) to patients with suspected cardiac arrest. In more than half of the cases, the ...
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North Shore University Hospital’s cardiology team became the first to complete a procedure using the novel OmniaSecure defibrillation lead on Jan. 7, a landmark in the field of electrophysiology. The ...
LANSING — A new type of heart defibrillator was implanted for the first time in Michigan during a December procedure at E.W. Sparrow Hospital. The device is able to give a more normal life to people ...
MINNEAPOLIS, MN—A novel implantable device that provides both cardiac contractility modulation as well as defibrillation (CCM-D) successfully and safely delivers integrated therapy, while also ...
PHILADELPHIA -- For atrial fibrillation (Afib) patients with obesity, a second set of defibrillation pads for dual direct current cardioversion safely improved the success of the procedure, a ...
Most patients with a cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) pacemaker would not benefit from the addition of a defibrillator, according to results from the CeRtiTuDe cohort study presented for the ...