Cardiac device therapy has significantly evolved since the introduction of the first implantable pacemaker and the subsequent ...

In a typical population of patients requiring implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy without pacing, mostly for the primary prevention of sudden cardiac death, a subcutaneous ICD (S-ICD; ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator was noninferior to a transvenous ICD regarding major ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Prior research has established the subcutaneous ICD as a reasonable alternative to the transvenous ICD in ...

The Cleveland Clinic announced their team successfully implanted the world's first leadless pacemaker defibrillator system in two patients. Pacemakers provide electrical stimulation to regulate a ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—The subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (S-ICD; Boston Scientific) prevents most of the major lead-related complications seen with a transvenous system, the ATLAS ...

Electric shocks delivered by subcutaneous defibrillators are equally effective compared to shocks delivered by conventional transvenous defibrillators, according to a study published in the journal ...

Years ago, during training, I remember a colleague dissing an early model of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) because it was primitive. All it did was shock ventricular tachycardia (VT) ...

Though the PRAETORIAN group was technically unable to prove that 8 years was enough to give a subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) an edge in safety, complication rates helped ...

Cleveland Clinic doctors were the first in the world to successfully implant leadless pacemaker defibrillator systems in two patients as part of a global clinical trial sponsored by Boston Scientific, ...