On Dec. 29, Eagle County Paramedic Services responded to a call for help for a male in his 60s who was choking in Golden Peak. When two paramedics arrived just minutes later, they found ...

TRAVERSE CITY — New hires are fueling Traverse City Fire Department’s drive to become the city’s primary ambulance transport agency, but not as quickly as department leaders had hoped. Department ...

North Shore University Hospital’s cardiology team became the first to complete a procedure using the novel OmniaSecure defibrillation lead on Jan. 7, a landmark in the field of electrophysiology. The ...

The OmniaSecure defibrillation lead [Image courtesy of Medtronic] Medtronic this week launched its OmniaSecure defibrillation lead in the U.S., describing it as the world’s smallest. The lead’s ...

Though the Medtronic OmniaSecure is the world’s smallest defibrillation lead, the product development story isn’t one of miniaturization. Instead, the world’s largest medical device company went in ...

Inefficient bone marrow targeting remains a major barrier to improving clinical outcomes in multiple myeloma (MM). Although bortezomib (BTZ), a first-line proteasome inhibitor, exhibits potent ...

Medtronic has won Food and Drug Administration approval for the Omniasecure defibrillation lead, the company said Friday. The lead connects to an implantable defibrillator and treats potentially life ...

Quite a few phones worldwide support the simultaneous use of two physical SIM cards, but not many US models do. In fact, most otherwise dual-SIM-capable phones see the feature disabled in the US ...

Background: Refractory ventricular fibrillation (RVF) is VF that persists despite 3 or more single defibrillation attempts. Double sequential defibrillation (DSD) is a proposed defibrillation strategy ...