PANAMA CITY − A local hospital has successfully incorporated a new technology that officials believe will help save lives. According to a press release from Ascension Sacred Heart Bay, it is the first ...

There are unique technical issues that must be considered with the implantation of devices in small patients and those with CHD. Although most centers report low complication rates of complications in ...

Pacemakers and defibrillators have a growing use in pediatrics and in patients with congenital heart disease, but they present unique problems and implications for their implantation and follow-up.

Jesse McIntosh hopes to be like Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. someday. The 8-year-old from Mansfield, Missouri, also wants to be a medical engineer and create devices like the one that ...

Physicians at Mercy Fort Smith are among the first in Arkansas to implant a new type of defibrillator designed to protect patients from dangerously fast heart rhythms that can lead to sudden cardiac ...

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CMS cited Houston-based Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center for not keeping working defibrillator paddles in its operating room during a heart transplant for a patient who died two months after the ...