Pacemakers send electrical pulses to regulate ... Walton Lillehei, turned to Medtronic founder Earl Bakken for help, to make sure he wouldn’t find himself in this situation again.

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 ...

Surgeons have been opening chests and implanting pacemakers for decades. The devices save millions of people by controlling their abnormal heartbeats. Now doctors are testing a new version of ...

Ofer Meri, M.D.; Michael Ilan, M.D.; Avraham Oren, M.D.; Daniel Fink, M.D.; Maher Deeb, M.D.; Dani Bitran, M.D.; Shuli Silberman, M.D. From a practical viewpoint, the ...

Sixty-seven years ago on Halloween, a rolling power outage wreaked havoc across the Twin Cities and at the University of Minnesota hospital, where cardiac patients were relying on electrical ...