February 26, 2018 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that Medtronic is recalling certain...
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
This channel includes news and new technology innovations for implantable cardioverter defibrillator, ICD, used to treat tachycardia arrhythmias and heart failure. This includes CRT-Ds.
Technology | Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Devices (CRT) | January 03, 2018
January 3, 2018 — Abbott announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for magnetic resonance (MR)-...
Videos | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) | December 13, 2017
Emanuel Kanal, M.D., director of MRI services and professor of radiology and neuroradiology at the University of...
Research team (left to right) Abdul Wase M.D. (principal ivestigator), Marina Brown R.N., Ken Shneider, Thein Aung M.D., Matt Clark, Dawn Hunt and Kimberle Evans R.N., with a Tesla car at Good Samaritan Hospital Dayton, Ohio.
Image courtesy of Joe Carfora.
News | November 25, 2017
November 25, 2017 — Sitting in, or standing close to the charging port of a Tesla electric vehicle did not trigger a...
News | EP Lab | October 30, 2017
October 30, 2017 — The American College of Cardiology, along with the American Heart Association and the Heart...
Technology | Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) | September 27, 2017
September 27, 2017 — Boston Scientific recently launched the Resonate family of...
Technology | Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) | September 22, 2017
September 22, 2017 — Abbott announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for...
Image courtesy of Technavio
News | EP Lab | September 11, 2017
September 11, 2017 — According to the latest market study released by Technavio, the global...
Abbott. St. Jude Medical has updated its firmware to address cybersecurity issues with its Allure Quadra MP and other EP devices.
Feature | EP Lab | August 29, 2017 | Dave Fornell
August 29, 2017 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a firmware update that is now available to...
News | Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Devices (CRT) | July 21, 2017
July 21, 2017 — Biotronik announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and availability of the Intica...
News | Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) | July 06, 2017
July 6, 2017 — Two predictive models may help cardiologists decide which patients would most benefit from an...
News | Atrial Fibrillation | July 03, 2017
July 3, 2017 — Medtronic recently announced that its Reactive ATP therapy slows the progression of...
Videos | Cardiovascular Ultrasound | June 29, 2017
Leyla Elif Sade, M.D., MESC, professor of cardiology at Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey, discusses use of echo...
The Biosense Webster multi-electrode balloon RF ablation catheter. Each electrode can have varied power settings to avoid damage to underlying tissues like the esophagus.
Feature | EP Lab | June 22, 2017 | Dave Fornell
Electrophysiology (EP) technology has been advancing rapidly the past few years with new ablation tools to improve...
