They discovered that some types of internal pacemakers are so designed that a diathermy machine operated within three feet of them causes interference; the pacemaker pulses so fast that the heart ...

He put a leadless pacemaker in John Allerton's heart on Thursday. The new, sleeker, less invasive pacemakers are about 1/10th of the size of a traditional pacemaker.

What they have found is that keeping a powerful magnet very near a pacemaker or defibrillator, an inch away or less, may temporarily degauss the pacemaker, causing a temporary malfunction.

Guidant Corp., already under fire for problems with its implantable defibrillators, on Monday warned physicians replacements might be needed for nine pacemaker models made between 1997 and 2000 ...

Micra CED Study Up to one in every eight patients implanted with a transvenous permanent pacemaker will have a complication, Piccini said, noting that studies using historical controls have shown that ...

The current monitoring of patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) such as pacemakers and defibrillators may be underestimating device problems.

Electromagnetic fields produced by motors in electric cars don’t appear strong enough to interfere with implanted heart devices like pacemakers and defibrillators, a small German study suggests.

business Health Care FDA warns Medtronic pacemaker patients about potential battery depletion problem A crack can form in an electric component, leading to rapid battery depletion possibly without ...

Pacemakers simply keep the heart rate in a comfortable range if the primary problem in the heart is electrical. Pacemaker electrodes are implanted directly in the heart.

New iPhone 12 models might interfere with some people's pacemakers due to their new MagSafe magnetic chargers.

Additionally, the pacemaker now wirelessly communicates with four other soft-electronic devices, temporarily adhered to the skin on various parts of the patient's upper body.