News tagged with 'Heart Device'

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

The Watchman, a new device implanted in the heart, proved to be a potential alternative to a warafin, a standard blood thinner for helping patients with atrial fibrillation to prevent stroke.

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