Nearly 500 hospitals have been ordered to pay the government more than $250 million to resolve allegations they allowed cardiac devices to be implanted in Medicare patients who were not eligible for ...

There is a reduction in sudden cardiac death risk among patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction with an ICD and recent decompensation.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee is gearing up for an execution on Tuesday that experts say would likely mark the first time a man has been put to death with a working defibrillator in his chest. Gov.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee is set to execute a man Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, as uncertainty lingers about whether the device will shock his heart when a lethal ...

Pediatric and congenital heart disease patients are at low risk for clinically significant arrhythmias during supervised cardiac rehabilitation.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee executed an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his heart when the lethal chemicals ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s said he was “hurting so bad” while he was given a lethal injection Tuesday in Tennessee, ...

Prophylactic, substrate-guided ablation of LV scars reduced the risk for subsequent VT in patients with ICDs for post-MI arrhythmias. Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy reduces ...

Postmortem analysis of ICDs is important in improving device performance and postmarketing surveillance and may be of use in evaluating the cause of death. Learned societies, governmental agencies, ...