Cardiologists at the Henry Ford Heart & Vascular Institute have found that the magnet in the iPhone 12 can disrupt the function of a life-saving defibrillator or pacemaker. The discovery has potential ...
INTRODUCTION: There are more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests annually, or 1,000 daily, in the United States with nearly 90% of them being fatal. 1 These statistics paint a grim image when ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A novel implantable cardioverter defibrillator platform may benefit patients with HF not eligible for cardiac ...
LOS ANGELES (March 8, 2002) – Patients who suffer from advanced congestive heart failure and heart rhythm abnormalities may qualify to participate in one of two research trials now underway at ...
The patient characteristics, study methods, and results have been published in detail. [3,4,9,10] In brief, the study was a randomized, open-label study to assess the effects of adding or not adding a ...
Defibrillators, with or without cardiac resynchronization therapy, can reduce the rate of sudden death. However, shocks are unpleasant, often unnecessary, and can damage myocardium or defibrillator ...
Reduced cardiac efficiency caused by suboptimal synchronization of the heart's normal contraction might contribute to the development of or exacerbate heart failure. Conceptually and in practice ...
The life-saving function of an implantable defibrillator can be disrupted by the magnet in an iPhone 12, according to cardiologists at the Henry Ford Heart & Vascular Institute. Henry Ford Health ...