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Injectable hydrogel electrodes open door to a novel painless treatment regimen for arrhythmia

Science Daily - Heart Disease

Such innovation in painless defibrillation and preventing arrhythmia could revolutionize cardiac rhythm management. The scientific advance is significant considering pain management is highly relevant to overall wellness for patients with heart, lung, and blood diseases.

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Video helps patients with defibrillators understand options, improve end-of-life care

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

A UT Southwestern Medical Center quality improvement team led a large-scale, multispecialty project in partnership with the Parkland Center of Innovation and Value to help patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) better understand their devices and make choices about their care.

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EV ICD Global Pivotal Trial Results Demonstrate High ATP Success, Effective Defibrillation

DAIC

2, 2024 – Medtronic recently shared long-term results from the global Extravascular Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (EV ICD) Pivotal Trial, reinforcing the performance and safety of the EV-ICD system. tim.hodson Thu, 09/05/2024 - 16:02 Sept.

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Fifteen years of subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy: Where do we stand, and what will the future hold?

HeartRhythm

The subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (S-ICD) has emerged as a feasible alternative for the transvenous ICD in the treatment of ventricular tachyarrhythmias in patients without pacing or cardiac resynchronization therapy indications.

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Volunteer responder systems significantly increase the proportion of bystander CPR and defibrillation.

Heart 2023 Conference

Using automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as soon as possible increases a person's chance of surviving a cardiac arrest. All three outcomes had higher rates across all of the included sites in the alerted cases than in the non-alerted cases: CPR on the spot: Bystander defibrillation: 73.8%

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American Heart Association Announces New 2024-2025 National Volunteer Leaders

DAIC

I am excited as the organization moves into our second century and to embrace new and innovative strategies to expand our research and understanding of how we can ensure cardiovascular health and total health for all.” in Pittsburgh. During our second century we will continue to make health equity a priority across the globe.

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Development of an Innovative Decision-Aid to Better Align Patients’ Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Shock Status With Goals of Care

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, Volume 18, Issue 3 , Page e011544, March 1, 2025.