Having an accelerated junctional rhythm occurs when the atrioventricular node in your heart beats too quickly. It happens as a result of damage to your heart’s primary natural pacemaker. There’s no ...

When Bill Rushmore, a cybersecurity engineer with General Motors, talks about his next upgrade, he isn't referring to a car. Eventually, Rushmore will need a replacement for his current pacemaker to ...

The cardiac pacemaker harmlessly dissolves over the course of 35 days. (Courtesy: Northwestern University) Temporary cardiac pacemakers provide essential pacing for patients with short-term heart ...

Junctional rhythm is an irregular heart rhythm that stems from a natural pacemaker in the heart known as the atrioventricular junction. The heart has several built-in pacemakers that help control its ...

Anyone who has learned to read ECGs has heard it before: "You can't diagnose acute myocardial infarction (AMI) on an ECG in the presence of a pacemaker." We have actually heard the same dictum ...

Data presented during a Late Breaking Clinical Trial at Heart Rhythm 2014 is the industry’s largest study of remote management of pacemaker patients ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- St. Jude Medical ...