A judge has ruled that the state can deactivate a death-row inmate’s implanted heart-regulating device at a hospital on the morning of his execution.

A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to ...

A Davidson County judge is holding a rare hearing Tuesday morning that could impact how Tennessee carries out the execution ...

A judge is ordering state officials to turn off a death-row inmate's heart-regulating implanted device to avert the risk that ...

A Davidson County judge has ordered the Tennessee Department of Correction to deactivate death row inmate Byron Black’s heart device before his scheduled August ...

“Defibrillators have pacing capability, but not all pacemakers are defibrillators,” Fry says. Depending on the type of pacemaker, it may last between five and 15 years before some or all of ...

Children present unique challenges to the design of pacemaker leads and generators. In long-term follow-up, children are much more likely to damage both pacemaker and defibrillator leads than adults.

To investigate the interaction between electro-shockers and cardiac devices, we devised an experimental model in which six pacemakers and ten implantable cardioverter-defibrillators from different ...

It's the leading cause of death for adults in the U.S. Medical devices approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, such as pacemakers and defibrillators, have extended and improved the ...