The device maker designed the lead to have the safety benefits of small-diameter devices without sacrificing durability.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for Medtronic’s OmniaSecure defibrillation lead intended for insertion in the right ventricle. This new 4.7 French (1.6mm) lead, which ...

EV-ICD tech "is going to be the future," says Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Defibrillation Solutions VP of R&D ...

Joshua Lupton, M.D., has no memory of his own cardiac arrest in 2016. He only knows that first responders resuscitated his heart with a shock from a defibrillator, ultimately leading to his complete ...

A team of researchers from Sergio Arboleda University in Bogotá, Colombia, and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta utilized an electrophysiological computer model of the heart’s electrical ...

Traditional hospital factors -- such as case volume and academic status -- do not appear to predict whether patients with cardiac arrest at that facility are likely to experience delays in receiving ...

The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Nov. 24, studied patient outcomes for three methods of defibrillation: standard defibrillation; double sequential external defibrillation ...

If you haven’t had to perform CPR for a patient who was being shocked by an automated implant­able cardioverter defibrillator (AICD), give it time. Approximately 800,000 people in the United States ...

Some patients are having their defibrillation leads taken out early due to shock coil calcification, according to an FDA alert. Boston Scientific has informed healthcare providers that device leads ...

A new observational study suggests the position in which responders initially place the two defibrillator pads on the body may make a significant difference in returning spontaneous blood circulation ...