Instead of capturing multiple components of a cardiac rhythm management device implantation with a single code, ICD-10 will force providers to code each component of the device system separately, ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A year ago, while jamming with his son's band, Eric Robinson went into cardiac arrest. "I have two birthdays now: the day I was born, and the day I was reborn," Robinson told ...

Medtronic has received U.S. regulatory approval to sell a new implantable defibrillator that can be placed outside of the heart and veins to treat SCA — sudden cardiac arrest — an electrical problem ...

Defibrillation is the most effective way to treat SCA and must be done within six minutes after a heart attack, according to the Ginsberg American Journal of Emergency Medicine. Without immediate ...

A wearable automatic defibrillator may be an alternative to an implantable cardiac defibrillator for a small group of patients, say researchers. There are few large, randomized and controlled clinical ...

St. Louis Blues defenseman Jay Bouwmeester, who needed a defibrillator to be revived after suffering a cardiac episode on the team bench during a game, has undergone a successful Implantable ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Objectives: In high-risk cardiac patients the treatment of life-threatening arrhythmias with an implantable ...

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AtaCor Medical, Inc. (“AtaCor”) announced today that it will present initial findings from its first-in-human extravascular implantable cardioverter ...

S-ICD defibrillator: implantable device shocks irregular heartbeats to return them to normal rhythm San Clemente-based Cameron Health Inc. last week cleared a regulatory hurdle on the way to its sale ...

LONGVIEW, TX (KLTV) - A Longview Regional Medical Center electrophysiologist, today announced the first in the Longview, as well as the East Texas Region to implant the Current® Plus implantable ...

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AtaCor Medical, Inc. announced today that it has completed enrollment in its initial acute Extravascular Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (EV-ICD) study.

The recalled Sprint Fidelis implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) leads failed more often in younger patients, women, and individuals with hereditary heart disease, according to a multi-center ...