Scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are trying to develop a more effective blood test to determine whether a patient needs to have a defibrillator implanted in his or her body to make ...

Mar. 23 -- THURSDAY, Nov. 1 (HealthDay News) -- A simple test can give cardiologists guidance about whether they should implant defibrillators into patients with weak hearts, new research confirms.

A commonly performed test during certain types of heart injury could actually be harmful, a new study has revealed. The testing procedure, known as defibrillator testing (DT), is commonly used on ...

Several lives were saved in the US in 2005 from the fatal arrhythmias through devices which were surgically implanted in them. As many as 1,70,000 people in North America received this treatment.

If you have a heart-zapping defibrillator implanted in your chest, you're not supposed to compete in sports any more intense than bowling or golf. A lot of patients ignore those guidelines, trying ...

A standard test of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is linked to significant thought-processing problems that improve for most patients within a year after the device is inserted, ...