RMH electrophysiologist Robert VerNooy, MD, has successfully implanted a new type of heart pacing device that helps doctors better treat patients diagnosed with heart failure. He is the first ...

World's smallest and thinnest high-energy CRT-Ds and ICDs offer new features to optimize patient management NATICK, Mass., Boston Scientific Corporation today announced the launch and first implants ...

Two Allina hospitals and clinics in the Twin Cities are among the first in the country to implant St. Jude Medical's newly approved Quadra cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) and ...

St. Jude Medical, Inc. recently announced the U.S. launch and the first U.S. implant of its Quadra Assure MP ™ cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D). The Quadra Assura MP ™ features ...

Boston Scientific has received FDA approval for its Resonate line of high-voltage cardiac devices. The regulatory nod clears Boston Scientific to start selling devices it thinks can overcome reticence ...

Implanted devices that treat cardiac dysfunction in heart failure patients are as successful in "real world" use as they are in controlled clinical trial settings, according to a large new study ...

A manufacturing defect that prevents delivery of necessary electrical shocks has resulted in the recall of four dozen already-implanted cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillation (CRT-D) devices ...

Heart-rhythm doctors are spoiled; we have at our disposal an array of highly successful treatments. Huge leaps in technology over the past decade have made it "normal" to succeed against arrhythmia.