Dr. Wes

From the Heart Rhythm Society via email today: Today, the Department of Justice announced that it has reached settlements in its investiga...

Dr. Lin and Matlock were quoted in Dr. John Mandrola's post today: "Convincing physicians to engage in shared decision-making is ...

Knowledge in Numbers? Decisions in medicine are supposed to rest on concrete obervations and hard evidence.  Often, hard evidence does...

From Massdevice.com : The company has received reports of 4 instances in which a fuse inside the subcutaneous ICD was activated inappropri...

If you haven't seen these clinical gems provided by Edward J. Schloss, MD, a cardiac electrophysiologist based in Cincinnati, Ohio, yo...

This morning, a nice article in the Boston Globe appeared on Boston Scientific's subcutaneous implantable cardiac defibrillator (S-ICD)...

It came from a  case report published online before print in PACE from Dr. John Marenco of Tufts University in Springfield, Massachusetts:...

One of Many St. Jude Ad Trucks Seen at HRS 2012 Scientific Sessions The boxing match about the safety of St. Jude Medical's newer Du...

Slightly over a year ago, the Department of Justice (DOJ) launched an investigation of a large number of institutions regarding concerns tha...

Imagine being able to detect heart failure before it happens. The potential to offer significant cost reductions in health care might be sig...

In January, 2011, an article authored by Sana M Al-Khatib, MD and others appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)...

How fast does sudden cardiac arrest cause unconsciousness? Just seconds. Here's video of Salamanca soccer player Miguel Garcia's ep...

Some interesting data were published in the journal HeartRhythm recently: Based on the registry, which has collected data on 486,025 ICD i...

This week in Circulation an article was published (before print) about the safety and efficacy of remote monitoring for implantable cardiov...

With the recent reports of hacking ICD's, especially when a skilled set of engineers stand within six inches of the device, we can see ...

Doctors are all familiar with marketing efforts to promote new drugs, but once the new drugs displace older drugs in the medical marketplace...

Thirteen. Unlucky? Ejection fraction. Three. Coronaries. Clean. One hundred sixty-five. Milliseconds. QRS. Thirty two. Years. Defibrillator...

End-of-life issues with implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) and the need (or not) for deactivation policies is being discussed at the ...

Well, at least it's one way to make a former tattoo three-dimensional: Just putting the sexy back... :) -Wes Photo used with patient pe...

Thanks to Scott Hensley for pointing me to this article in New York Magazine about the rock band Giraffes’ Aaron Lazar who received an i...