A self-powered, bioresorbable temporary pacemaker the size of a grain of rice has been developed by an international team of ...

In an effort to help doctors track the world’s leading cause of death, cardiovascular diseases, a Massachusetts biomedical ...

Abbott's first-of-a-kind smartphone compatible heart monitor has been approved by for ... which is the slimmest of its kind available and is implanted just under the skin on the chest, transmits ...

Implantable cardiac monitors (ICMs) continuously monitor the patient's electrocardiogram and perform real-time analysis of the heart rhythm ... similar to those of implanted cardioverter ...

But traditional heart monitors have required specialized external hardware. That’s not the case with Abbott’s Confirm Rx Insertable Cardiac Monitor, which is implanted just under the skin and ...

Last year, for example, a review of more than 3,500 alerts in 61 patients with implanted heart monitors over the ... false AF alerts with the LINQ II monitor by 74.1%, whilst preserving 99.3% ...