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

William S. Staewen, a co-inventor of the implantable heart defibrillator and a pioneer in biomedical engineering, died of congestive heart failure Sept. 19 at Frederick Health Hospital. He was 91 and ...

Not all defibrillator pad positions may work equally well for patients with shockable out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. (JAMA Network Open) Medical therapy for aortic stenosis? Early clinical data on ...

There are unique technical issues that must be considered with the implantation of devices in small patients and those with CHD. Although most centers report low complication rates of complications in ...

A 65-year-old man treated for ventricular tachycardia storm after repeat bypass surgery, requiring extensive defibrillator shocks for recovery.

Jesse McIntosh hopes to be like Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. someday. The 8-year-old from Mansfield, Missouri, also wants to be a medical engineer and create devices like the one that ...

PRINCETON — A heart procedure that required patients needing it to travel many miles from home can now find it at a local hospital serving southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia. WVU Medicine ...

CMS cited Houston-based Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center for not keeping working defibrillator paddles in its operating room during a heart transplant for a patient who died two months after the ...