Researchers were able to identify high-risk residential areas suitable for the placement of an automated external defibrillator by using simple demographic characteristics of a city center, according ...

If you're at risk for sudden cardiac arrest, an implantable cardioverter defibrillator -- a small, battery-operated device that resides in your chest to detect abnormal heart rhythms -- can deliver a ...

A study of outcomes among 1,200 people with implanted defibrillators — devices intended to prevent sudden cardiac death from abnormal heart rhythms — shows that within a few years of implantation, one ...

The small size and abnormal anatomy of children born with heart defects often force doctors to place lifesaving defibrillators entirely outside the heart, rather than partly inside—a less-than-ideal ...

1.1 Current evidence on the safety and efficacy of subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator insertion for preventing sudden cardiac death is adequate to support the use of this procedure ...