Type D Personality Reduces Mental and Physical Health in Pacemaker, ICD ... 
Insidermedicine
Patients with a personality type making them prone to distress are at increased risk of experiencing reductions in physical and mental health from the distress associated with shocks received by an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), ...

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Robert Hauser, ICD Watchdog, Offers Viewpoint On Riata Controversy At HRS 
Forbes
Next up was the Danish Pacemaker Registry experience presented by Dr. Jens Johansen confirming, as have others, the inferior long term performance of ICD leads with small diameters (including Medtronic Sprint Fidelis and St. Jude Riata): This finding ...

 

Study links pacemaker and defibrillator implantation to deadly heart infections 
InjuryBoard.com
?Cardiac electronic devices, including permanent pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs), are increasingly implanted worldwide, with estimates of more than 4.2 million patients with a permanent pacemaker or ICD implanted in the ...

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Global Cables and Leads for Medical Equipment Industry 
Sacramento Bee
By Reportlinker This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Cables and Leads for Medical Equipment in US$ Million by the following End-Use Segments/Application Areas: Pacemaker, Defibrillator, EEG, and ECG. The report provides separate comprehensive ...

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BIOTRONIK Presents World's First ICD, CRT-D and CRT-P Devices With ProMRI(R ... 
MarketWatch (press release)
... of innovative medical technology, has developed the world's first implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD), cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) and cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemaker (CRT-P) with ProMRI(R) technology.

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Global Cables and Leads for Medical Equipment Industry 
MarketWatch (press release)
This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Cables and Leads for Medical Equipment in US$ Million by the following End-Use Segments/Application Areas: Pacemaker, Defibrillator, EEG, and ECG. The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for ...

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BIOTRONIK Gives ICD Patients in Asia Pacific First-Ever Access to MR Scans 
MarketWatch (press release)
ProMRI(R) allows patients with a pacemaker, ICD or CRT-D to undergo MR scans. The BIOTRONIK ProMRI(R) tachycardia series marks the first time an ICD-/CRT-D portfolio has been designed, tested and approved to make MR scans possible.

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BIOTRONIK Evia HF-T, World's First MRI-Approved CRT Pacemaker 
MarketWatch (press release)
About ProMRI(R) ProMRI(R) allows patients with a pacemaker, ICD, CRT-D or CRT-P to undergo an MR scan. The BIOTRONIK ProMRI(R) Evia HF-T series marks the first time a CRT pacemaker has been designed, tested and approved to make MR scans possible.

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MRI with pacers, ICDs: Safe, a few minor issues, says MagnaSafe registry 
TheHeart.Org
The analysis included 500 adults at 12 centers who had received a pacemaker or ICD after 2001 who had a "strong clinical indication" for a nonthoracic MRI scan. Those who weren't pacemaker-dependent had their device's pacing functions deactivated and ...
MRI Safe for Patients with Cardiac Devices MedPage Today

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In patients with an ICP/ICD, multidisciplinary approach with frequent ... 
Oncology Nurse Advisor
NEW ORLEANS?A multidisciplinary approach focusing on patient education and frequent assessment was effective at safely providing radiation to patients with an implanted cardiac pacemaker/defibrillator (ICP/ICD), according to research presented at the ...