Pacemakers

This channel includes news and new technology innovations for pacemakers used to treat bradycardia.

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May 7, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety communication to alert healthcare providers ...

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March 29, 2019 — A research team from Imperial College London believes a new software could speed up the diagnosis and ...

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Khaldoun Tarakji, M.D., MPH, associate section head, section of electrophysiology and pacing in the Robert and Suzanne ...

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March 21, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Impulse Dynamics’ Optimizer Smart system for ...

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February 20, 2019 — Medtronic is recalling its dual chamber implantable pulse generators (IPGs) due to the possibility ...

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An implanted ICD showing its three venous leads. These multiple CRT leads can cause issues when they need to be replaced and are abandoned with new leads put over them in the SVC, which may require lead extraction.
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To extract or abandon broken or infected implantable, venous electrophysiology (EP) device leads has been a debate for ...

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Medtronic is issuing a software update to address a safety risk caused by cybersecurity vulnerabilities associated with the internet connection between the Carelink 2090 and Carelink Encore 29901 programmers used to download software from the Medtronic software distribution network (SDN) . This update is a voluntary recall correction by the manufacturer to address the safety risk caused by the cybersecurity vulnerability.
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October 17, 2018 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reviewed information about potential cybersecurity ...

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October 2, 2018 — Two-year results of the Moderato I Study demonstrated immediate, substantial and sustained reduction ...

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June 28, 2018 — Investigators at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) and the University of Southern California (USC) ...

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May 24, 2018 — Syncope with bifascicular block may be caused by intermittent complete heart block, but competing ...

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May 24, 2018 — New clinical study results demonstrate that an investigational algorithm, utilizing the accelerometer ...

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Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) live electrophysiology (EP) procedure case at the 2018 annual meeting. #HRS2018
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Here is an aggregation of all the news and late-breaking studies presented at the 2018 Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) Scient ...

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May 10, 2018 – A new study is the first to test the clinical effectiveness of incremental peri-operative antibiotics as ...

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Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) Offers Recommendations to Prepare for Cybersecurity Threats to Cardiac Implantable Devices in new consensus document. #HRS2018
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May 16, 2018 — The Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) released communication recommendations to assist healthcare professionals ...

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April 30, 2018 — LivaNova announced it completed the sale of its cardiac rhythm management (CRM) business to MicroPort ...

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