News tagged with 'Defibrillators'

The FDA plans to increase misdemeanor prosecutions of executives in the pharmaceutical and food industry after a lax performance in that area.

The results of a new study suggests implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are not effective in women.

The FDA is holding an urgent meeting to try and fix the medical device crisis that is putting millions of Americans in danger of defibrillators, hip joints, and spinal screws, among others. Both FDA insiders and a GAO report called for immediate attention and confirmed many devices are marketed without rigorous premarket approval.  Ironically, consumers lost their right to hold device makers accountable under the Riegel decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.

A new study finds MP3 and iPod headphones may dangerously interact with implantable defibrillators and heart pacemakers. Researchers suggest patients with defibrillators and pacemakers not keep headphones in their shirt or coat pocket near the chest or around their neck when not in use.

Using the power of the heart beat, energy may be used to supplement the power needed for pacemakers and defibrillators, reducing or even eliminating the need to replace the batteries. Initial tests on a pig have been successful it's revealed at the American Heart Association's annual meeting.

You see someone collapsed in an apparent cardiac crisis. Most people will stand there and gawk but fast-thinkers should not hesitate to jump in and give the person chest compressions, even if they aren’t trained professions, said the American Heart Association (AHA) on Monday

This is the largest study ever to look at just how effective our nation’s hospitals are at delivering care when heart abnormalities strike and minutes count. In at least one third of cases, care was delivered outside of the two minute recommended time.

A new study conducted by researchers with the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio suggests new sophisticated heart defibrillators may be associated with an increased risk of hospitalization and death. According to the study, which appears in next week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, newer models featu