Medtronic alerted healthcare professionals in Europe to the risk of cardioversion-related damage to the Vanta implantable neurostimulator (INS), model 977006, During cardioversion, healthcare workers ...

A heart shock may restore the heart’s rhythm and is a potential treatment for atrial fibrillation (AFib). Doctors also refer to heart shock as electrical cardioversion. In AFib, a person has an ...

WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash shares health update. A few days ago, Kevin Nash revealed that he had been dealing with an irregular heartbeat and was scheduled for a cardioversion procedure to restore ...

Medtronic has warned that one of the models in its Vanta range of implantable neurostimulators for pain relief may stop working if the patient is given cardioversion therapy to restore a normal heart ...

ROME, ITALY — Using the factor Xa inhibitor edoxaban (Savaysa/Lixiana, Daiichi Sankyo) to anticoagulate patients about to undergo electrical cardioversion for their atrial fibrillation (AF) seems ...

A waiver of consent was obtained from the institutional review board at our facility to perform this retrospective chart review. A computerized search of the electronic medical record (EMR) system was ...

I recently diagnosed atrial fibrillation in a 24-year-old man with new-onset chest pain, irregular palpitations, and heart rate >170 beats per minute. The patient has no history of drug or tobacco ...