Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) announced today that it received FDA approval for an expanded indication for its OmniaSecure defibrillation lead.

Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT), a global leader in healthcare technology, received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for an expanded indication for the OmniaSecure™ defibrillation lead. Now ...

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 ...

After 10 years at the helm, ZOLL CEO Jon Rennert will step down from his current role to take on the job of executive chair ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Bystander use of an automated external defibrillator after cardiac arrest improves survival odds at 30 days.

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 ...

Using light pulses as a model for electrical defibrillation, scientists developed a method to assess and modulate the heart function. The research team has thus paved the way for an efficient and ...

Defibrillation testing of implantable cardioverter–defibrillators (ICDs) does not improve outcomes compared with device implantation without testing and, therefore, “defibrillation testing during ...

Registry data suggest that one third of the patients who would benefit most are not receiving timely defibrillation. In the U.S., in-hospital cardiac arrest occurs about twice as often as ...

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 ...