The US FDA study is intended to evaluate the system for treating life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias.

The FDA’s Circulatory System Devices panel voted 7-1 on Thursday that the benefits of the Cameron Health subcutaneous ICD system (S-ICD) outweigh the risks in appropriately selected patients. The ...

Like the name suggests, sudden cardiac arrest comes on without warning and is a leading cause of death for adults over the age of 40. For people who may be at risk, doctors may suggest an implantable ...

It happened in Homeland. Could it happen in real life? In a 60 Minutes segment scheduled for broadcast tomorrow, Dick Cheney says that his doctors turned off the wireless function of his implanted ...

Münster, Germany - In the largest case-control series to date, the fully subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator (S-ICD, Cameron Health/Boston Scientific) matched the safety and ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently granted marketing approval for Boston Scientific Corporation 's BSX Emblem MRI Subcutaneous Implantable Defibrillator (S-ICD) System, in line with ...

Medscape: Was the IDE study presented at HRS essentially the same as that presented to the FDA Circulatory System Panel meeting in April? Dr. Burke: It was updated a little bit, such as adding the ...

FIRST IN MORNING eHEALTH: CMS’S ICD-10 CONTINGENCY PLAN: CMS has response plans depending on five scenarios in the transition to the ICD-10 medical coding system. The scenarios are the following: 1) ...

When it comes to ICD-10 and ICD-11, there are generally two camps. There are those that believe ICD-10 is a necessary coding step to take, and all hospitals and providers should make the steady ...

Hospitals have just passed the two-year mark, although it’s not a countdown most would celebrate. On Oct. 1, 2013, just less than two years away, ICD-10 will be the new standard for coding and billing ...

A nationwide Icelandic study confirms an ICD-10 algorithm accurately identifies major GI bleeding in anticoagulated patients, ...