By harnessing light, my colleagues and I designed a wireless, ultrathin pacemaker that operates like a solar panel. This design not only eliminates the need for batteries but also minimizes ...

When the SA node doesn’t work as it should, the heart rate can slow down causing breathlessness and blackouts. However, when the malfunctioning SA node is removed by cardiologists in a procedure known ...

The medical team led by Dr Balbir Singh, Chairman, Cardiology, Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, decided on an advanced ...

A team of heart experts in Southampton is taking part in the global trial A new pacemaker with no leads, aimed at preventing a sudden cardiac arrest has been implanted in a man's chest during a ...

Now doctors are testing a new version of these lifegivers ... Surgeons use small prongs to push it into place in the heart. What’s more, the pacemaker monitors the heartbeat and activates ...

A 75-year-old woman suffering from sick sinus syndrome has successfully undergone a breakthrough leadless pacemaker implant at a Delhi hospital. This minimally invasive procedure significantly reduces ...

Pacemaker impulse is recorded as the vertical ... Treatment of unexpected cardiac arrest by external electric stimulation of heart. New Eng. J. Med. 254:541–546, 1956.

This review will describe the outstanding issues and controversies surrounding the safety of MRI imaging in pacemaker patients and the potential benefits of the new MRI-conditional technology.

The biggest problem with traditional pacemakers is that the leads, or wires that are used to send electrical currents into the heart to shock it back into rhythm, break or fail. But now, a new ...

A New Pacemaker Algorithm for the Treatment of Atrial ... paced beats while allowing for the normal diurnal variation in the heart rate. The algorithm increases the pacing rate when the native ...