Surgeons have been opening chests and implanting pacemakers for decades. The devices save millions of people by controlling their abnormal heartbeats. Now doctors are testing a new version of ...

However, leads can fail and damage tissue. The location of the leads can’t be changed once they’re implanted, limiting access to different heart regions. Because pacemakers use rigid, metallic ...

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 through the blood vessel into different ...

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: ...

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.

conducted an in vitro study to investigate whether electronic interference occurs between video capsules and cardiac pacemakers. The researchers individually tested 21 different pacemakers in a ...

All pacemakers were tested under a "worst-case ... the interference of two UMTS digital cellular telephones with the different models of available PPMs.

However, leads can fail and damage tissue. The location of the leads can't be changed once they're implanted, limiting access to different heart regions. Because pacemakers use rigid, metallic ...