Considering that one of the big trends in healthcare is keeping people out of the hospital by making greater use of remote monitoring cardiac patients and other patient populations. There’s also been ...

Stryker won FDA approval to introduce its LIFEPAK CR2 defibrillator with LIFELINKcentral program manager. It was developed by Physio Control, now a subsidiary of Stryker. The interesting capability of ...

Presenter: Saman Nazarian, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) (Dr Nazarian is currently a fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.) The ultimate cause of death in ...

Defibrillators deliver a lot of power. But their designs must provide these shocks safely to the patient without damaging other lifesaving equipment that may be connected. Victims of sudden cardiac ...

Depending on how the heart’s electrical activity appears on an EKG, a doctor may diagnose coarse or fine ventricular fibrillation (VF). Coarse VF appears as larger waves on an EKG compared with the ...