Thousands of Americans with heart trouble have small implanted defibrillators, to help regulate their heartbeat and keep cardiac events at bay. But new research finds that on extremely hot days ...

Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med. 2008;5(11):690-692. The recommendation for public use of AEDs in the 2000 international guidelines for resuscitation [2] was not readily accepted in Japan. One of ...

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