Surgeons use small prongs to push it into place in the heart. What’s more, the pacemaker monitors the heartbeat and activates only when it needs to. Dr. John Hummel explains: “If it stops for ...

Warren Mauston, a heart patient at St. Paul’s Bethesda Hospital, would become the first U.S. patient to be fitted with an external pacemaker in 1959. Roughly the size of a small paperback book ...

This surgery may be done if you have bradycardia (a slow heart rate). A pacemaker is a small, battery-powered device. It sends electrical signals to the heart. These signals work to keep the heartbeat ...

Researchers in Switzerland assessed the risk posed by commercially available NdFeB magnets to the function of pacemakers in 41 patients and ICDs in 29 patients. They tested two small spherical ...

Pacemakers are medical devices implanted in the body to regulate ... We did this by using a layer of very small pores that can trap light and electrical current. Only cardiac muscles exposed to ...

A lithium-ion battery made from three droplets of hydrogel is the smallest soft battery of its kind – and it could be used in biocompatible and biodegradable implants ...

The trial was small and halted early, but investigators say the inflammatory hypothesis in TAVI is worth pursuing further.

When used correctly, pacemakers and defibrillators improve both quality of life and life expectancy. While teams of engineers design these small machines, they rely on doctors knowing who will benefit ...

A 13-year-old girl, Chandni Gaud, receives a wireless pacemaker as a Diwali gift, sparing her from frequent hospital visits ...

The “Aveir VR” pacemaker offers significant advantages over traditional wired pacemakers, as it is inserted through a small ...

and he walked up and down the hospital corridor pushing the pacemaker before him on a small mobile table. On November 21, after 18 days of sustained atrial fibrillation with conducted beats and ...

While researchers acknowledged the small scale of the study ... a magnet can change a pacemaker's timing or deactivate a defibrillator's life-saving functions, and this research indicates the ...