Gloria Lawless lived with atrial fibrillation, or AFib, for 14 years. After her cardiologist scheduled her for a ...

A heart shock may restore the heart’s rhythm and is a potential treatment for atrial fibrillation (AFib). Doctors also refer to heart shock as electrical cardioversion. In AFib, a person has an ...

The drug-shock strategy was more effective for patients experiencing atrial fibrillation for the first time and for patients younger than 70 years, the researchers said. Both the anti-arrhythmia drug ...

PHILADELPHIA -- For atrial fibrillation (Afib) patients with obesity, a second set of defibrillation pads for dual direct current cardioversion safely improved the success of the procedure, a ...

If you have atrial fibrillation (AFib), you may not need any treatment, or you may be able to manage it with medication. But this condition is almost always progressive and often needs lifelong ...

NativeCardio Inc., a cardiac medical device manufacture, announced today it's study the 'Ultra-low energy cardioversion in a pig model of postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF): A Feasibility Study' ...

Most people experience occasional, brief, usually harmless heartbeat problems, such as the feeling of a skipped, fluttering or racing heartbeat. However, to thousands of mainly older Filipinos, such ...

During what seemed like an ordinary rectal check-up, doctors were taken by surprise when a man's racing heart rate, clocked ...

Medtronic alerted healthcare professionals in Europe to the risk of cardioversion-related damage to the Vanta implantable neurostimulator (INS), model 977006, During cardioversion, healthcare workers ...