We report the case of a 51-year-old female who underwent placement of an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) and a biventricular pacemaker and who immediately postoperatively experienced ...

Relatively weak magnets in consumer products have always posed some risk, usually very low, to the function of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). However, stronger ...

Heart failure was keeping Chuck Moon from living life to the fullest, but that all changed when he took advantage of a new ...

An automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD or AICD) is a permanent device ... It is implanted similar to a single-chamber pacemaker and the generator lies in the upper chest area.