Patients with advanced heart failure, who are already followed closely, might be a good population to focus on, one expert ...

One of the timeliest and, some say controversial, topics in clinical cardiac electrophysiology today is the proper role of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) in the treatment of ...

Abbott announced that a cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator and an implantable cardioverter defibrillator to treat patients with potentially life-threatening heart rhythms and ...

Increased potassium intake and dietary guidance reduced risk for adverse events in patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator and may be an affordable intervention to reduce overall CV ...

Hypokalemia and even low-normal plasma potassium levels increase the risk of ventricular arrhythmias among patients with cardiovascular disease. An assessment of a strategy of actively increasing ...

In patients with cardiovascular disease who had an ICD and were at high risk for ventricular arrhythmias, increasing potassium levels led to a significantly lower risk for arrhythmia events.

A wearable automatic defibrillator may be an alternative to an implantable cardiac defibrillator for a small group of patients, say researchers. There are few large, randomized and controlled ...

The player has now been fitted with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) to regulate his heartbeat but Serie A officials want the 29-year-old completely free of health concerns before ...

Summary GlobalData's Medical Devices sector report, "Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICD) - Medical Devices Pipeline Assessment, 2017" provides an overview of Implantable Cardioverter ...

An inmate executed by Tennessee without deactivating his implanted defibrillator said he was hurting badly shortly after the ...