Implantable cardiac devices play a significant role in decreasing the morbidity and mortality in patients with cardiovascular disease. Tissue-device interactions leading to systemic ...

The first cardioverter-defibrillator, invented and developed by Polish-born Israeli-American physician Michel Mirowski, was implanted in a patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Since then ...

An automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD or AICD) is a permanent device in which a lead (wire) inserts into the right ventricle and monitors the heart rhythm. It is implanted ...

FLINT, Mich. (WNEM) - A mid-Michigan hospital has become one of the first in the country to successfully implant a next-generation cardioverter-defibrillator for patients with dangerously fast or ...

Such techniques can be automatically applied using implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and offer the potential for painless termination of ventricular tachycardia (VT). Reduction in ...

Kestra Medical recently filed a form S-1 to confirm its intent to go public through an initial public offering (IPO).

Kestra Medical Technologies announced today that it appointed Al Ford as its new chief commercial officer (CCO).

How are patients with myocardial scar after a myocardial infarction and ventricular tachycardia currently managed? Implantable cardioverter–defibrillators (ICDs) improve survival in patients ...