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 ...

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

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.

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

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

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 ...