Medtronic this week launched its OmniaSecure defibrillation lead in the U.S., describing it as the world's smallest.

A team of researchers from Sergio Arboleda University in Bogotá, Colombia, and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta utilized an electrophysiological computer model of the heart’s electrical ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for Medtronic’s OmniaSecure defibrillation lead intended for insertion in the right ventricle. This new 4.7 French (1.6mm) lead, which ...

North Shore University Hospital’s cardiology team became the first to complete a procedure using the novel OmniaSecure ...

The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Nov. 24, studied patient outcomes for three methods of defibrillation: standard defibrillation; double sequential external defibrillation ...

When someone has a sudden heart attack, is it better to begin chest compressions first or start by using a defibrillator? Click to read what researchers say. A new study by the University of Michigan ...

Researchers used an electrophysiological computer model of the heart's electrical circuits to examine the effect of the applied voltage field in multiple fibrillation-defibrillation scenarios. They ...

Some patients are having their defibrillation leads taken out early due to shock coil calcification, according to an FDA alert. Boston Scientific has informed healthcare providers that device leads ...

OBJECTIVETo determine the use of epinephrine (adrenaline) before defibrillation for treatment of in-hospital cardiac arrest due to a ventricular arrhythmia and examine its association with patient ...