The doctor makes a cut in the skin just below your collarbone. The cut may be on either side of your chest. The doctor will put the pacemaker leads through the cut. The leads go into a large blood ...

By Steve Stricker Columnist Dr. Mark Campbell, Autum, Derek, Dorothy (Oxford Stern Cardiovascular Clinic Staff), Vallery, Carlen, Katlan, Madison (In-room preparation and monitoring), Dr. Mark, Derek, ...

A pacemaker works by sending electrical impulses to the heart to maintain a regular heartbeat. The generator is connected to the heart via leads, which detect the heart's natural electrical ...

Trinity Health Muskegon is the first hospital in West Michigan to implant an AVIR DR pacemaker, the world's first ...

[1] The increased need for MRI in PPM patients has prompted the development of a specifically designed pacemaker and lead system tested for safe use in the MRI environment and in early 2011 ...

Traditional versions are bulky and need two long wire leads connected to an implanted battery, but now, a wire-free pacemaker is changing the game. “From the moment that we’re born ...

For most of us, drinking a cup of coffee is no big deal. The same can be said about carrying a tray of food at a potluck, drinking wine at communion or putting on makeup or shaving before work. If ...

An Epworth cardiologist who recently implanted Victoria's first available lead-free dual chamber pacemaker technology, has ...

A Bakersfield hospital Monday became the first in Kern County to successfully implant the AVEIR DR, the world's first dual-chamber leadless pacemaker system from Abbott that treats people with ...

The world’s only wireless cardiac pacing device for heart failure, Wise obviates the problem of dodgy pacemaker leads failing to last the distance. The initial product is designed to eliminate ...

The Accent MRI pacemaker, with the Tendril MRI lead, is an MRI conditional system, offering safe performance of a full-body MRI scan on the patient using a 1.5 T (Tesla) field-strength MRI scanner.