Editor's Note: This post originally appeared at drjohnm.org. The purpose of this post is to clarify important issues about cardiac devices as they relate to deactivation. As I wrote yesterday, Paula ...

The rate of major complications associated with cardiac implantable electronic-device (CIED) implantation varied widely among different centers in recent data from Australia and New Zealand. The rate ...

Looking at a large cohort of patients undergoing various types of open heart surgery, investigators have provided contemporary data that can be used to inform patients about the risks of cardiac ...

Cardiac device therapy has significantly evolved since the introduction of the first implantable pacemaker and the subsequent ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Christian Eriksen's soccer career could be saved by an implantable cardioverter defibrillator or ICD, a small battery-powered device to regulate his heartbeat following a ...

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In a new publication from Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications; Yu Zhang, Wen-Long Dai, Can-Can Lin, Qiao-Yuan Li and Cheng-Jun Guo from Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, ...

Risk of cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) infection and resulting mortality hinged on the timing and extent of infection, which may ultimately come down to the type of procedure that the ...

Advertising Changes After Drug Switch to Over-the-Counter For patients undergoing pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator surgery, the incidence of clinically significant pocket-device ...