St. Anthony Regional Hospital has expanded its advanced cardiac care offerings with the successful implantation of the world’s smallest transvenous defibrillation lead. The procedure was performed by ...
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 ...
WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI — A hospital near Ann Arbor completed a medical first for Michigan. Trinity Health Ann Arbor has performed Michigan’s first implant of a defibrillation lead measuring just under 1 ...
Bradley Ferguson, 31, was diagnosed with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) at the age of 19 — a condition where the heart muscle wall becomes thickened, making it harder for the heart to pump blood ...
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 ...
Among patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation (VF), survival to hospital discharge was more frequent with double sequential external defibrillation (DSED) and vector-change (VC) ...
Defibrillator use in cardiac arrest cases increases patient survival rates by between 49% and 75%, the government wants to improve access for non-medical responders ...