Defibrillators use electrical shocks to restore a normal heart rate, especially in cases of life threatening arrhythmias or sudden cardiac arrest, while pacemakers use low-energy electrical pulses to ...

Your heart’s job is to keep your pulse steady to pump blood throughout your body. Sometimes your heart rate is slower when you’re relaxing, and sometimes it’s faster when you’re exercising or stressed ...

During an average lifetime, the heart beats more than 2 billion times. To you, it might just be a steady “lub-dub” that speeds up under pressure and slows as you drift to sleep. But behind that rhythm ...

Pacemaker implantation is a procedure that helps regulate irregular heart rhythms. The common conditions leading to the procedure in women differ from those in men. Following pacemaker implantation, ...

A technique to insert pacemakers in heart patients, including young women, that was pioneered by Dr. Michael Giudici in Davenport is getting national attention. Giudici, long associated with the ...

Few children have had the opportunity to receive this tiny pacemaker, but Aurora, born in March, was the second South Texas ...