Denver, CO - Perhaps you've seen them—compact, electronic devices with complex circuitry and sophisticated programming, a state-of-the-art battery, and a single external wire separating into two leads ...

Last May, a widely reported study concluded that errant electronic noise from iPods can cause implantable cardiac pacemakers to malfunction. This just didn’t sound right to the cardiac ...

Oct 28 (Reuters) - St. Jude Medical Inc : * Has paused implants of Nanostim leadless cardiac pacemaker due to 7 reports of lost telemetry and pacing output from pacemaker Sign up here. * There have ...

The rhythm is regular at a rate of 120 beats/min. A pacemaker stimulus occurs before each QRS complex (→). This is ventricular pacing. Because the pacing rate is 120 beats/min, the mode of pacing must ...

iPods can cause implantable cardiac pacemakers to malfunction, according to a study presented at a meeting of heart specialists on Thursday. The study tested the effect of placing the portable device ...

Minnesota-based medical device company St. Jude Medical is pausing enrollment in a clinical trial for one of its more promising devices, the slender Nanostim pacemaker that fits entirely inside the ...