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 ...

The work could make pacemakers available to people who could not otherwise afford them, cardiac electrophysiologist Thomas Crawford said in a news briefing. The hope, he said, is to scale up the ...

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 ...

The Aveir VR single chamber ventricular pacing system is the world’s only leadless pacemaker with a unique mapping capability ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nevertheless, it is recommended that capsule endoscopy is not performed in patients with cardiac pacemakers or other electronic devices because of the possibility of electronic interference ...