A Long Island man, who is a retired FDNY EMS captain, made a career decision based in part on his daughter's rare medical ...

The cut may be on either side of your chest. The doctor will put the pacemaker leads through the cut. The leads go into a large blood vessel in the upper chest. Then the doctor will guide the leads ...

Ventricular arrhythmias: Rapid heart rate from the bottom half of the heart that doesn’t allow the heart to pump out enough blood. Pacemakers come in different types depending on the patient's ...

UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering study could lead to better brain-machine interfaces, biosensors, and pacemakers ...

Here’s why there’s so little progress The pacemakers of today, Kowal said, are about the size of an Oreo cookie with a nearly 17-year lifespan and can be programmed hundreds of different ways.

Background: Patients over the age of 75 represent more than half the recipients of permanent pacemakers. It is not known if they have a different risk of complications than younger patients.

Solid-state batteries barely exist, but the rivalry has already begun; especially between these two Japanese behemoths.

Meanwhile, semiconductors—the key materials for bioelectronics such as pacemakers, biosensors, and drug delivery devices—are ...

The Identity pacemaker models 5370 and 5376 feature AF management, a suite of therapeutic and diagnostic capabilities designed to manage pacemaker patients suffering from AF. This tool kit includes: ...

Introduction Leadless Cardiac Pacemakers (LCP) have emerged as an innovative alternative to traditional ... LCP procedures had longer mean fluoroscopy time than TVP (9.5 +/- 4 versus 5.5 +/- 3 minutes ...