A new generation pacemaker that’s smaller than a AAA battery and has no external wires has been a game-changer for former ...

The lead is composed of an electrode(s) positioned within a cardiac chamber, an insulated, coiled wire(s), and a connector ... Single-chamber atrial pacing usually employs a lead placed in ...

Workers clad in gray smocks resisting static electricity precisely add hundreds of parts like wire harnesses ... Bakken invented his battery-powered pacemaker in the late 1950s and founded ...

A New Pacemaker Algorithm for the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation: Results of the Atrial Dynamic Overdrive Pacing Trial (ADOPT) Electrophysiologic Characteristics of the Spontaneous Onset and ...

The Volt PFA system. [Image courtesy of Abbott] Abbott (NYSE: ABT) + announced it received CE mark approval in Europe for its ...

"First, the device is large compared to the size of a newborn or preemie. Second, the pacing wire from the device to the heart usually goes through a vein in older children and adults. Infants ...

Background Cardiac surgery carries a heightened risk of bradyarrhythmias, but current permanent pacemaker (PPM) implantation ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Two studies have significantly expanded the known genetic variants associated with atrial fibrillation (AF), identifying over 350 common DNA variants and rare ...

Gene Hackman's pacemaker would have alerted his physician if an "urgent" event occurred, according to cardiologist Dr. Christopher Davis. During an interview with Fox News Digital, Davis explained ...

That monitor revealed that he had both a heart flutter and atrial fibrillation ... And he would need a pacemaker to make sure his heart rate could be corrected if something happened again.