Pacemakers and defibrillators have a growing use in pediatrics and in patients with congenital heart disease, but they present unique problems and implications for their implantation and follow-up.

Millions of people worldwide live with a pacemaker that regulates their heartbeat, but exactly what are these devices and how do they work? Pacemakers can save the lives of heart patients by ...

More information: Megan A. Mullins et al, Implantable cardioverter defibrillators in people dying with cancer: A SEER‐Medicare analysis of ICD prevalence and association with aggressive end‐of ...

Older cancer decedents with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) receive more aggressive end-of-life care.

At Lille University Hospital, he was put into an artificial coma before being fitted with a pacemaker-defibrillator days later. The 30-year-old Bentaleb is hopeful he will be able to resume his career ...

(For instance, the University of Tennessee’s College of Veterinary Medicine can accept only Medtronic brand pacemakers, and generators without built-in defibrillators.) When you call to ask if a ...

Multiple implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) shocks can impair a patient's quality of life, and the long-term prognosis associated with shocks remains undefined. In 2008, two published ...

A Co Derry man says it is “positive” news that more defibrillators have been registered on a UK-wide network after his life was saved by one of the devices. John Deery (64) from Eglinton ...