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

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

The FDA-approved OmniaSecure defibrillation lead from Medtronic is a thin wire that connects an implantable cardioverter defibrillator to the heart.

Trinity Health Ann Arbor has completed Michigan’s first implant of the world’s smallest device designed to help treat ...

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 ...

After suffering a major heart attack and enduring six bypass surgeries, Arthur Craig lived with the terrifying prospect of sudden cardiac death. Doctors told him the best course of action was to ...

New trial results that could double the patients who are eligible to use heart defibrillators had shares in the health-care companies that make the devices racing on Wednesday. Guidant Corp. said a ...

When it comes to affairs of the heart, love taps are preferred over love jolts. That is the result of a team of heart researchers including Igor Efimov, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical ...

Correcting the irregular heartbeat of an arrhythmia with a standard defibrillator can be a shocking experience that jolts the patient and sometimes leaves residual damage to the very heart muscle that ...

Scientists have found a nicer, milder, and literally less shocking way to reset the electrical turbulences of our hearts. And they’ve slashed the amount of energy needed! Less dramatic, yes… but the ...