Background Persistent shockable rhythms (refractory to or recurring after three or more defibrillation attempts) are associated with poorer survival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, but ...

Medtronic said its OmniaSecure defibrillation lead has received Food and Drug Administration approval for placement in the left bundle branch area of the heart. The lead connects to an implantable ...

Abbott is teaming up with AtaCor Medical to develop a next-generation implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) designed to treat dangerous cardiac arrhythmias without routing wires through the ...

The OmniaSecure defibrillation lead [Image courtesy of Medtronic] Medtronic this week launched its OmniaSecure defibrillation lead in the U.S., describing it as the world’s smallest. The lead’s ...

Cardiologists at the Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital at North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) announced today they are the first team in the world to implant the industry’s smallest defibrillation ...

The defibrillator has been a staple in the Battlefield franchise for years now. Support players have been paddling their allies back to life for a long time, but now Battlefield 6 has a few new things ...

In a recent article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on November 9, 2025, researchers examined the effect of coffee consumption on the recurrence of atrial fibrillation ...

This single-center, ambispective cohort included patients undergoing one-stop procedures [LAAO combined with radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA)], where LAAO was performed first. DCCV was ...

Jesse McIntosh hopes to be like Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. someday. The 8-year-old from Mansfield, Missouri, also wants to be a medical engineer and create devices like the one that ...

"This is the first study to describe Emergency Physician's ability to [manage] both the procedural sedation and electrical cardioversion of class III and class IV obese patients," the authors wrote.

A diagram of the affected Endotak Reliance defibrillation leads. [Image courtesy of Boston Scientific/FDA] The FDA issued a correction related to a recall of Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) + ...

Former President Bill Clinton is facing questions about his health after he was spotted in the Hamptons with what appeared to be a portable defibrillator. Photographs show someone accompanying the ...