SAN ANTONIO -- Thousands of patients with congestive heart failure benefit from automatic implantable cardiac defibrillators (AICDs) that deliver shocks to the heart to correct abnormal heart rhythms.

Automatic implantable cardiac defibrillators (AICDs) deliver shocks to the heart to correct arrythmias. They do so based on electrocardiogram data. Researchers have now shown that an AICD can be ...

Thousands of patients with congestive heart failure benefit from automatic implantable cardiac defibrillators (AICDs) that deliver shocks to the heart to correct abnormal heart rhythms. These ...

Every year 250,000 or more people with cardiovascular disease die within an hour of symptom onset and before they arrive at a hospital. With appropriate early defibrillation and follow-up treatment ...

Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) will have a more difficult time getting on the market if a new FDA proposal is finalized. The agency today proposed a new rule that will require AED ...

In this undated image provided by the Jewish National Fund-USA, Dr. Morton Mower and his wife, Toby, pose for a picture. Dr. Morton Mower, a former Maryland-based cardiologist who helped invent an ...

SOLON - A favorite of local shoppers for more than 40 years, the Miles Farmers Market is now a safer place to shop and work thanks to a donation from HeartSine Technologies, Inc. and the proactive ...

They grabbed automatic defibrillators from glass cabinets at O'Hare, Midway and Meigs Field airports and put them to use, according to results of a two-year study published last week in the New ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A University of Pennsylvania contest has stirred up interest in rounding up AED's - or automated external defibrillators - to pinpoint where the portable devices are located in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An FDA-approved wearable cardioverter defibrillator is available for patients at risk for sudden cardiac arrest.