ICD-9 contains only 17,000 codes and is expected to start running out of available codes next year. By contrast, the ICD-10 code sets contain more than 155,000 codes and accommodate a host of new ...

Instead of capturing multiple components of a cardiac rhythm management device implantation with a single code, ICD-10 will force providers to code each component of the device system separately, ...

The extravascular implantable cardioverter–defibrillator (ICD) has a single lead implanted substernally to enable pause-prevention pacing, antitachycardia pacing, and defibrillation energy similar to ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Medtronic's novel "extravascular" implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (Aurora EV-ICD) system, which uses a single lead implanted substernally to ...

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DALLAS, March 2, 2010 — A standard test of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is linked to significant thought-processing problems that improve for most patients within a year after the ...

ST. LOUIS - St. Louis Blues President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Doug Armstrong announced this morning that defenseman Jay Bouwmeester has undergone a successful Implantable Cardioverter ...

Defibrillation is the most effective way to treat SCA and must be done within six minutes after a heart attack, according to the Ginsberg American Journal of Emergency Medicine. Without immediate ...

From 1993 to 2006, 481,976 sample records of primary PM implantation were identified, which corresponds to 2.4 million (95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.28–2.50 million) patients with primary PM ...

A standard test of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is linked to significant thought-processing problems that improve for most patients within a year after the device is inserted, ...