I had a life-saving device implanted in my chest. It almost destroyed me

It felt like something inside me wound up and sucker-punched me from the inside out. The air around me got heavy.
Medscape

Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Therapy for Prevention of Death in Patients With Cardiomyopathy

One of the timeliest and, some say controversial, topics in clinical cardiac electrophysiology today is the proper role of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) in the treatment of patients ...
Medscape

Complications of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Therapy in 440 Consecutive Patients

Background: Although more than 150,000 implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are implanted yearly worldwide, only few studies systematically examined complications of ICD therapy in large ...
Healio

CRT defibrillator, ICD receive labeling approval from FDA

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Abbott announced that a cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator and an implantable cardioverter ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

FDA Approves Medtronic’s Extravascular Defibrillator for Ventricular Arrhythmia

The first-of-its-kind Aurora EV-ICD system offers a single-device, single procedure with a lead placed outside of the heart and veins. The FDA has approved the Aurora Extravascular Implantable ...
Nature

Strategic choices to reduce implantable cardioverter-defibrillator-related morbidity

The indications for ICD implantation continue to expand; however, these devices are associated with complications related to the implantation procedure itself and morbidity caused by the normal and ...
Science Daily

Test of implantable cardioverter defibrillator linked to cognitive problems

A standard test of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is linked to significant thought-processing problems that improve for most patients within a year after the device is inserted, ...
The New York Times

Tom Lockyer discharged from hospital, has defibrillator fitted following cardiac arrest

Luton Town captain Tom Lockyer has been released from hospital after having an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) fitted. Lockyer collapsed in the 59th minute of Saturday’s Premier League ...
FierceBiotech

Medtronic claims FDA approval for defibrillator implant routed outside the heart and veins

Medtronic has secured an FDA green light for a new type of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator that the medtech giant describes as the first of its kind. Unlike other ICDs that are wired into ...
Nasdaq

Medtronic receives FDA approval for extravascular defibrillator to treat abnormal heart rhythms, sudden cardiac arrest

First-of-its-kind Aurora EV-ICD™ system offers single device, single procedure with lead placed outside of heart and veins FDA approval of the Medtronic Aurora EV-ICD system includes the system's ...
Science Daily

Wearable defibrillator may be an alternative to ICD for some patients

A wearable automatic defibrillator may be an alternative to an implantable cardiac defibrillator for a small group of patients, say researchers. There are few large, randomized and controlled clinical ...