Relatively weak magnets in consumer products have always posed some risk, usually very low, to the function of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). However, stronger ...

At the University of Minnesota's heart lab, millions of dollars of tubing and wires and technology work to keep a living ...

Surgeons have been opening chests and implanting pacemakers for decades. The devices save millions of people by controlling their abnormal heartbeats. Now doctors are testing a new version of ...

The doctor makes a cut in the skin just below your collarbone. The cut may be on either side of your chest. The doctor will put the pacemaker leads through the cut. The leads go into a large blood ...

The Identity pacemaker models 5370 and 5376 feature AF management, a suite of therapeutic and diagnostic capabilities designed to manage pacemaker patients suffering from AF. This tool kit includes: ...

I owe everything to them.” George also noted that the surgeon placed the pacemaker “underneath a very special tattoo of mine.” The ink, which is visible in the accompanying photo ...

An Epworth cardiologist who recently implanted Victoria's first available lead-free dual chamber pacemaker technology, has ...

Leadless pacemakers address known complications associated ... shortens recovery time and enhances patient comfort by minimising visible scarring. Overall, this innovative technology represents ...