Refurbished pacemakers usually last more than 10 years, though their longevity depends on how much the patient uses it.

Old” pacemakers may still work for years, so doctors are refurbishing used devices and donating them to patients in low- and middle-income countries.

A Louisville baby made headlines two years ago when she received the tiniest pacemaker ever implanted into a human at that ...

According to the American Heart Association, traditional (transvenous) pacemakers have tiny wires ... the device generated in response to this artificial heartbeat. They found that the best ...

Zoll employed an extrathoracic cardiac pacemaker in which relatively high voltages (15–100 volts) were introduced across the closed chest to cause a resumption of ventricular systole in patients ...

There are two common implantable devices for the heart: artificial pacemakers and defibrillators. Artificial pacemakers keep ...

There are two common implantable devices for the heart: artificial pacemakers and defibrillators. Artificial pacemakers keep ...

"implanted pacemakers and defibrillators might contain sensors that respond to magnets and radios when in close contact". Implanted defibrillators send electrical pulses to regulate abnormal heart ...

The devices include heart pacemakers, rods to correct spines, and artificial knees and hips. The investigation found implants that had failed in baboons, or were tested only on pigs and dead ...

effective and safe method of arousing the heart from ventricular standstill by an artificial, external, electric pacemaker. For the first time it was possible to keep a patient alive during ...

There are several types of artificial pacemaker, which have electrical leads connected to different chambers of the heart. Wires are guided along a vein to the chamber of the heart that needs to ...