Dr. Wes

The following is a case study intended for folks who look at defibrillator recordings.  If you find it interesting, great.  If you have no ...

With the deaths that have recently surfaced  caused by esophageal perforation following cryoablation procedures for the treatment of atrial ...

From this morning's Wall Street Journal : Medtronic says federal rules prohibit giving Ms. Hubbard's data to anyone but her docto...

It's one of those calls you never want to get as an electrophysiologist: "Doc, I got four shocks from my device yesterday." ...

Almost : So far, Medtronic has developed most of the components—a circuit board, an oscillator to generate current, a capacitor to store an...

... a little thicker, certainly, but otherwise (at least on the surface), not too much: The recently-approved MRI-safe active-fixation l...

Mary Knudson, a health journalist and author of the Heart Sense blog, does a great job covering the story behind the story on the newly a...

From 7thSpace : (Hong Kong) The Department of Health (DH) today (May 5) received notification from Medtronic International Limited (MIL), th...

Technology is an incredible thing. Technology is expensive. Technology saves lives. Technology can bankrupt. When there's no technology,...

The American Heart Association, in conjunction with a $1 million dollar grant from the Medtronic Foundation, thinks it can , especially if s...

Today, an announcement was issued to doctors implanting Medtronic's Concerto and Virtuoso wireless implantable cardiac defibrillator...

Today, Medtronic began notifying physicians and patients about a new advisory (pdf) on some of their Kappa and Sigma series of pacemakers m...

Sometimes, even our best efforts to save lives fails us. In an effort to minimize the time to deliver shocks in patients in cardiac arrest, ...

The New York Times published an article in their business section (interesting location to put such an article, but I digress) about extrac...

... was published online before print in the journal Heart Rhythm yesterday: "... the hazard of Sprint Fidelis failure accelerated aft...

In October, 2007, Medtronic issued one of the largest defibrillator lead advisory alerts for their popular and thin Model 6949 Sprint Fideli...

If only biotechnology could deliver on its promises : “You can’t keep stuffing gizmos into people to treat end-stage disease,” the keynote s...

As reported in the Star Tribune regarding the faulty implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) battery suit settled by Medtronic from the rec...

The New York Times has an interesting piece in their Business section today on implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs), but paints a rem...

Sometime next week, we should be receiving software , called the "Lead Integrity Alert" that can be uploaded into existing Medtron...