The 24th Annual Scientific Sessions of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology (NASPE) was held in Washington, DC, from May 14-17, 2003. In 2002, the ACC/AHA/NASPE committee ...

February 9, 2012 (San Francisco, California) — About a third of physicians who would refer patients for consideration of a primary-prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) appear not to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than one-quarter of physicians surveyed never refer patients with the intent of consideration for a primary ...

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Nov. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Updated guidelines issued by the American Heart Association (AHA), the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) now ...

In a typical population of patients requiring implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy without pacing, mostly for the primary prevention of sudden cardiac death, a subcutaneous ICD (S-ICD; ...

CMS and the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics released changes to the ICD-10-CM guidelines for fiscal year 2019. 1. The new guidelines apply to all hospital inpatient and outpatient coding ...

BARCELONA, Spain—A focus on the public’s role in responding to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) indications, and upgraded recommendations for catheter ...

Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital ...

Clinical trial data, including those from MADIT-CRT, support the use of cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic heart failure and ventricular ...

On November 14, Judge Edward Chen in the Northern District of California issued rulings on the pending motions to dismiss in U.S. ex rel. Osinek v. Kaiser Permanente, granting in part and denying in ...