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View Post: Medtronic posts 59 percent profit increase, boosts annual forecast ...
27 Nov 2009
Aging populations, rising wealth and dietary changes are contributing to higher rates of heart disease in the region, spurring demand for pacemakers and implantable defibrillators, Butel said. To receive regular e-mail updates on the ...
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View Post: Spain and Britain use fewer heart devices -Heart Disease news
14 hours ago
Writing in the European Journal of Heart Failure, his team said the use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) across the population had increased to 140 per million in 2008 from 80 in 2004. The highest rate of ICD implants in 2008 ... The use of cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT), an advanced kind of pacemaker, has also increased to 99 from 46 per million across Europe since 2004, mainly due to increasing use of devices combining CRT and ICD treatment. ...
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View Post: What Heart Patients Should Know Now about Implantable Defibrillators
14 hours ago
An implantable defibrillator, nicknamed ICD, is a like a pacemaker (in fact, it has a built-in pacemaker) but it also has the ability to defibrillate the heart with a big burst of energy if the heart starts to race. ...
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View Post: Technology Review: Keeping Pacemakers Safe from Hackers
9 Nov 2009
Manufacturers have started adding wireless capabilities to many implantable medical devices, including pacemakers and cardioverter defibrillators. This allows doctors to access vital information and send commands to these devices ...
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View Post: pubget—the blog: Hot off the presses! Nov 01 Nature medicine
4 hours ago by ian connor  
Until a few years ago, being fitted with an implantable pacemaker or defibrillator meant regular trips to the hospital to check the device and review its activity. But the latest generation of these devices, which send electrical ...
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View Post: The Implantable Defibrillator Chickens Come Home To Roost : The ...
9 Sep 2009 by DrRich  
But MADIT-CRT did not use a fancy pacemaker. It used a fancy implantable defibrillator - that is, an implantable defibrillator that incorporates CRT pacing instead of standard pacing. So the cost of this CRT device is probably $25000 ...
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View Post: Earbuds and pacemakers not a healthy mix
31 Oct 2008
New Orleans (LA) – If you have a pacemaker or defibrillators you may want to rethink the use of headphones of your MP3 player. Scientists now claim that MP3 player headphones can have a “potentially dangerous” impact on implanted ...
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View Post: Pacemaker Dimensions
Dimensions Guide
16 Nov 2009 by dimension   ...
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View Post: New material for implantable cardiac leads
1 Nov 2009 by S. Suave Lobodzinski, Michael Laks  
Abstract: Cardiac function management devices, including implantable pacemakers and implantable defibrillators, include at least 1 cardiac lead having an electrode for making contact with a portion of the heart. ...
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