An implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is a small device that your doctor can put into your chest to help regulate an irregular heart rhythm, or an arrhythmia. Although it’s smaller than a ...

Instead of capturing multiple components of a cardiac rhythm management device implantation with a single code, ICD-10 will force providers to code each component of the device system separately, ...

Dr. Hunter Champion answers the question: 'Preventing Sudden Death With An ICD?' — -- Question: Can sudden death be prevented with an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (also called an ICD)?

Defibrillation is the most effective way to treat SCA and must be done within six minutes after a heart attack, according to the Ginsberg American Journal of Emergency Medicine. Without immediate ...

Medtronic has received U.S. regulatory approval to sell a new implantable defibrillator that can be placed outside of the heart and veins to treat SCA — sudden cardiac arrest — an electrical problem ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Objectives: In high-risk cardiac patients the treatment of life-threatening arrhythmias with an implantable ...

Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital is the first hospital in the northwest suburbs to implant a subcutaneous implantable defibrillator (S-ICD). The Boston Scientific S-ICD® System is the world's first and ...

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AtaCor Medical, Inc. (“AtaCor”) announced today that it will present initial findings from its first-in-human extravascular implantable cardioverter ...

St. Louis Blues defenseman Jay Bouwmeester, who needed a defibrillator to be revived after suffering a cardiac episode on the team bench during a game, has undergone a successful Implantable ...

The recalled Sprint Fidelis implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) leads failed more often in younger patients, women, and individuals with hereditary heart disease, according to a multi-center ...

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AtaCor Medical, Inc. announced today that it has completed enrollment in its initial acute Extravascular Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (EV-ICD) study.

S-ICD defibrillator: implantable device shocks irregular heartbeats to return them to normal rhythm San Clemente-based Cameron Health Inc. last week cleared a regulatory hurdle on the way to its sale ...