The vast majority of Medicare beneficiaries with infection of a cardiac implanted electronic device (CIED) don’t have their hardware removed within 30 days, contrary to guideline recommendations, and ...

Researchers analyzed the surgery outcomes of 1,386 patients who underwent a device extraction procedure due to infection at Cleveland Clinic between August 1996 and September 2012. Of this patient ...

Dallas, TX - Physicians treating people with pacemakers or other implanted cardiac devices who also develop Staphylococcus aureus infections should be keenly suspicious that the device will become ...

Cardiac device therapy has significantly evolved since the introduction of the first implantable pacemaker and the subsequent ...