PANAMA CITY − A local hospital has successfully incorporated a new technology that officials believe will help save lives. According to a press release from Ascension Sacred Heart Bay, it is the first ...

A Long Island hospital is the first in the nation to implant a novel defibrillator outside a patient’s heart and veins. Cardiologists at the Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital at North Shore University ...

Medtronic has secured an FDA green light for a new type of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator that the medtech giant describes as the first of its kind. Unlike other ICDs that are wired into ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Another first for Lansing institutions: Sparrow has become the first health system (and hospital) in Michigan to have implanted a new, life-saving defibrillator for heart ...

Trinity Health Ann Arbor has completed Michigan’s first implant of the world’s smallest device designed to help treat ...

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 ...

Standard training pathways in cardiac electrophysiology are being short-circuited for a "fast-track" approach to train nonelectrophysiologists (not necessarily cardiologists) to implant defibrillators ...

May 23 -- Imagine living with a device, day in and day out, that could mean the difference between life and death. The implantable defibrillator is exactly that for the cardiac patients who wear it.

A medical breakthrough out of UVA Health as a team performs the first-of-its kind implantable heart defibrillator in Virginia. This is for patients who are at high risk of cardiac arrest or heart ...