KNOXVILLE -- Tennessee senior associate athletic trainer Chad Newman has reported that basketball player Emmanuel Negedu had a sub-pectoral implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) implanted in his ...

If you’re at risk for sudden cardiac arrest, an implantable cardioverter defibrillator — a small, battery-operated device that resides in your chest to detect abnormal heart rhythms — can deliver a ...

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) reduce mortality in patients with increased risk of sudden cardiac death, but use of these devices has been limited by complications with the ...

Four hundred and forty patients who underwent first implantation of an ICD system at the University Hospital of Marburg between January 1994 and February 2005 were consecutively enrolled in the ...

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 ...

October 28, 2009 (Edmonton, Alberta) — A 13-year study of bypass-surgery patients in Nova Scotia shows that only about one in 10 patients who are eligible for an implantable defibrillator ever got one ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a medical journalist covering cardiology news. Since the first human implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implant in ...

Medical doctor Ghiyath Tabbal anticipates doing 100 heart procedures a year using a new version of an implantable defibrillator. Medical doctor Ghiyath Tabbal anticipates doing 100 heart procedures a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillators can be extracted safely and feasibly. S-ICD extraction was ...

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