Heart patient has implantable defibrillator fitted

Bradley Ferguson has had the Extravascular Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (EV-ICD) fitted. It monitors a patient's ...
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Bulgaria clears path for public defibrillator use in cardiac emergencies

Defibrillator use in cardiac arrest cases increases patient survival rates by between 49% and 75%, the government wants to ...
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How do pacemakers and defibrillators work? A cardiologist explains how they interact with the electrical system of the heart

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electrocardiograms, or ECGs, record the electrical activity of your heart. Randy Faris/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your ...

'I'm the first heart patient in the UK to receive a new-style defibrillator - I'm so grateful to the Wolverhampton medics who did my procedure, it's given me real pe…

A Wolverhampton patient has become one of the first in the country to receive a new type of implantable ...
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Potential RAC Targets: Pacemaker and Defibrillator Implantations

Cardiac pacemaker implantations (DRG 116) made the headlines in the first-ever Medicare Quarterly Provider Compliance Newsletter (issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [CMS] just this ...

Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David's Medical Center first in U.S. to implant FDA-approved novel defibrillation lead

The new technology is the world's smallest, catheter-delivered defibrillation lead AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Electrophysiologists at the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute (TCAI) at ...
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FDA Approves Medtronic’s Extravascular Defibrillator for Ventricular Arrhythmia

The first-of-its-kind Aurora EV-ICD system offers a single-device, single procedure with a lead placed outside of the heart and veins. This article was originally published by HCPLive. This version ...