St. Jude Medical and Medtronic were also asked about the response of their internal cardioverter defibrillators to magnet application. SJM devices do not use charge time as a surrogate for ERI and ...

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

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 ...

The document, co-chaired by Andrea Russo, MD, (Cooper University Health Care, Camden, NJ), and Milind Desai, MD (Cleveland Clinic, OH), goes over 335 common clinical scenarios in which implantable ...

While the month of February has developed a reputation for a chubby cherub shooting heart-shaped arrows and for giving ...

Quickly taken to surgery, she was implanted with a cardiac resynchronisation therapy defibrillator ... The Great Island Trek, held each year on Magnetic Island, covers 16km and 25km journeys.

The study identified five key variables—nonsustained ventricular tachycardia, syncope, male sex, age, and left ventricular ...

A new multi-society Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) document focuses on cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs), specifically implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs ... and Society for ...

ucl.ac.uk Recognising lamin A/C heart disease is important because implantable cardioverter defibrillators need to be implanted ... 171603), by the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR ...

Jazmin Garza ended up on life support after collapsing during a workout at the gym — and says "doctors still don't know why ...

Jan. 9, Magnus Miller was playing in a tournament basketball game when he leaped into action after a player on the opposing ...

Sky Bet, the British Heart Foundation (BHF), and Blackburn Rovers are urging community groups to apply for defibrillator packages. They want local groups to apply before the application deadline ...