Hospital's cash boost for heart ops
Bolton News - Bolton,UK
More pacemakers and other complex devices, which ensure the heart is working properly, will be fitted than ever before under new plans. ...
Tots get life-saving lessons
The Advertiser - Great Yarmouth / Lowestoft / Norwich,Norfolk / Suffolk,UK
The East of England Ambulance NHS Trust employees were inspired after researching the survival rate of sudden cardiac arrest in other areas of the world. ...
Explorer throws lifeline to kids
Healthcare Republic (press release) - London,UK
In the cases of inherited heart disease, such as arrhythmias, the heart is electrically unstable – it is these instabilities that can cause sudden death.
Keeping You Heart Health At Your Fingertips - DailyCare Launches ...
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
With this innovative device, doctors can remotely detect and monitor arrhythmias, as well as adjust arrhythmia medication according to their efficacy. ...
Sudden Cardiac Arrest: Killer Lurking?
CBS News - New York City,NY,USA
Learn more about different types of heart disease and find out if your state has a higher incidence of mortality from the disease. ...
Implant helps fragile heart rhythm
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
Jon Cotterill-Bolsover, 28, has Brugada syndrome, a disorder that disrupts the heart`s normal rhythm. A sudden noise can make the heart stop. ...
Study: Napping Regularly Fights Heart Disease
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
"Another possibility is that it is part of the normal biological rhythm of daily living. The biological clock that drives sleep and wakefulness has two ...
Surgeons Develop Simpler Way to Cure Atrial Fibrillation
Newswise (press release) - USA
Newswise — Physicians have an effective new option for treating atrial fibrillation, a common irregular heart rhythm that can cause stroke. ...
Pricey heart implant now 'as seen on TV'
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
The Medtronic device -- which can cost $20000 to $30000, not including the cost of surgery and hospitalization -- shocks the heart back into rhythm. ...
Cooling catheter saves heart patients
Bradenton Herald - Bradenton,FL,USA
Jim Owens plays golf today because doctors put him on ice after he suffered a sudden cardiac arrest the morning of Sept. 27, 2005. ...
Got Rhythm?
Earthtimes.org - USA
The most common cause of cardiac arrest is ventricular fibrillation (VF), in which the electrical signals that control the pumping of the heart suddenly ...
Medtronic ads
Minnesota Public Radio - Saint Paul,MN,USA
The ad is part of a $100 million Medtronic advertising and education campaign to raise awareness of sudden cardiac arrest--and the Medtronic devices that ...
Health minister new hosptials
NetDoctor
Medtronic testing device for MRI use
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Defibrillators Have Saved 76 Lives on American Airlines
Senior Journal
The cough that saved a family's lives
Norwich Evening News - Norwich,England,UK
Sam's condition - dilated cardiomyopathy - is hereditary, so doctors tested his relatives to see if they were also at risk. His mother, Isabel Smith, ...
Moment a fatal heart attack strikes
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
The picture forms part of British research to improve understanding of ventricular fibrillation (VF), the most common cause of sudden cardiac arrest. ...
Lower profits at Boston Scientific as industry bottoming out
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
based company acquired the Arden Hills manufacturing and research center for ICDs and pacemakers formerly operated by Guidant Corp. ...
Defibrillator detection: Dispatchers can now tell 911 callers ...
Grand Haven Tribune - Grand Haven,MI,USA
Heart attacks and other conditions can cause ventricular fibrillation, when electrical signals in the lower part of the heart are uncoordinated and ...
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mplant brugada helps fragile heart rhythm
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
Jon Cotterill-Bolsover, 28, has Brugada syndrome, a disorder that disrupts the heart`s normal rhythm. A sudden noise can make the heart stop. ...
Take Heart America
USA Today - USA
"We know in isolation that these all make a difference, but taken together they make a bigger difference," says Keith Lurie, an electrophysiologist at the ...
