Tara Sellers, administrator of The Surgery Center of Key West (Fla.), an ASCOA facility, discusses seven steps to bring pacemaker generator insertions and changes to your surgery center. 1. Recruit a ...

When a pacemaker's battery gets low, the whole implant typically has to be surgically replaced. Scientists are therefore developing a noninvasive battery recharging system, which utilizes externally ...

The pint-sized Darth Vader who captured the hearts of America when he appeared in a popular Super Bowl commercial four years ago received a new pacemaker generator Tuesday at a Los Angeles hospital.

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Objectives: The CAPTURE study evaluated the accuracy of automated atrial and right ventricular (RV) threshold algorithms. Background: Modern pacemakers include many added features designed to improve ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The Norton Children's Heart Institute is celebrating what it said is a medical first for the United States: the life-saving implantation of a tiny pacemaker into the chest of ...

A typical implantation of a CRT-P with its three leads and use of an anti-infective envelope would require five ICD-10-PCS codes. Q: We are having trouble with a case that involves an Implantation of ...

Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome of symptoms and signs that happen when the heart is not working well enough. It leads to reduced blood flow to body tissues and can cause oedema in the ...

A woman is brought to the emergency department with chest pain. Her clinicians do not have to search far for the source. Mrs. R, 63 years old and visibly obese, was transported by paramedics to the ...

Prior investigations have established the accuracy of the algorithm during "simultaneous" manual and automatic measurements. [9] For this study, the automatic and manual measurements were compared ...