The BriefWhile vacationing at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Illinois physician Dr. Jeffrey Schiappa saved a 17-year-old girl ...

Sue Baker had become familiar with hospital stays due to her heart troubles that began in 2015. Her condition worsened over ...

Sue Baker was told that she had two options after her heart started to fail after years of intervention: Enter palliative ...

An enhanced algorithm for recognizing the rhythms associated with cardiac and respiratory activity in auscultation signals has been developed on the basis of previously proposed approaches. The ...

The AHA/ACC Foundation/Heart Rhythm Society recommendations for the standardization and interpretation of the ECG (2009) recommend selecting the electrocardiographic lead with the longest T wave when ...

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is frequently the initial manifestation of a cardiac arrhythmia, resulting in about 350 000 deaths annually in the United States. 1 Devices such as the implantable ...

The beat of your heart can tell you a lot. It may race on your way to a first date. It can speed up when you’re too stressed or have had too much coffee. Or maybe it slows down during a blissful ...

The town serves as the headquarters for the Osage Nation, whose deep relationship with this land stretches back generations and continues to influence the community’s values and rhythms. The Osage ...

The ICD with a wire inside the heart can also be made to work as a basic pacemaker as needed. Sometimes after a shock is delivered, the heart may beat too slowly. The ICD has a "backup" pacemaker.

A new, tiny pacemaker, smaller than a grain of rice, could play a big role in the future of medicine, according to the engineers who developed it. Researchers at Northwestern University in the US ...