In a recent paper in the journal Heart Rhythm, doctors describe how they turned off the potentially life-saving cardiac defibrillator function of an implanted Medtronic device simply by holding an ...

Cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillator (CRT-D) can help certain patients with non-left bundle branch block (non-LBBB) with heart failure if traditional, implantable cardioverter ...

Using light pulses as a model for electrical defibrillation, scientists developed a method to assess and modulate the heart function. The research team has thus paved the way for an efficient and ...

Cardiologists at the Henry Ford Heart & Vascular Institute have found that the magnet in the iPhone 12 can disrupt the function of a life-saving defibrillator or pacemaker. The discovery has potential ...

An e-cigarette carried in the left breast shirt pocket of a patient with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) caused magnetic reversion, interrupting the ICD's ability to detect and treat ...

Defibrillators are not just for buildings - Moel Famau hill in north Wales has one Following the death of a rugby player from a cardiac arrest during a match, BBC Wales is taking a closer look at the ...

The LifeVest by Zoll is a defibrillator that a person can wear. A cardiac life vest can send electrical pulses to the heart to attempt to restart it after cardiac arrest. LifeVest is a device that can ...

ZOLL® Medical, an Asahi Kasei company that manufactures medical devices and related software solutions, including automated external defibrillators (AEDs), today announced the UK launch of its ...