Cardiologists at the Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital at North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) announced today they are the first team in the world to implant the industry’s smallest defibrillation ...

An abnormal heart rhythm, or arrhythmia, occurs when your heart beats too fast, too slow, or irregularly. Tachycardia is when the heart beats too fast, and its rate goes over 100 beats per minute (BPM ...

KINGSPORT — Physicians at Holston Valley Medical Center became the first in the Appalachian Highlands to successfully implant a novel extravascular defibrillator to treat patients with dangerously ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia encountered in clinical practice, and commonly leads to morbidity and mortality as a result of thromboembolism events or heart failure. The ...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation are crucial life-saving techniques that can greatly influence survival rates during emergencies involving sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). The ...

PHILADELPHIA -- For atrial fibrillation (Afib) patients with obesity, a second set of defibrillation pads for dual direct current cardioversion safely improved the success of the procedure, a ...

ON THE HEALTHWATCH TONIGHT, DIGNITY HEALTH, SEQUOIA HOSPITAL IS NOW THE FIRST IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO IMPLANT A NOVEL EXTRAVASCULAR DEFIBRILLATOR. IT WILL BE USED TO TREAT PATIENTS WITH ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA—For patients with obesity who are undergoing electrical cardioversion for atrial fibrillation (AF), delivering twice the energy with a simultaneous dual approach is a better option ...

You are dispatched for chest pain in a 54-year-old male. You arrive on scene and find your patient sitting in a recliner in the living room of the residence. He appears in obvious distress. He is pale ...

View post: ‘Never Done Anything Like This Before’: Skippylongstocking Panics On Plane, Out Of Big Cap Electrodes on the tips of catheters were placed in Rio’s chest to perform the TVEC procedure. Rio, ...