Articles tagged with 'Story' | BIOTRONIK

With being able to listen in while getting something else done – such as running, commuting or cooking – podcasts offer up great ways for us to keep up with what’s going on in every field imaginable – and cardiology is no exception.An estimated 465 m...

LAKE OSWEGO, Ore., September 8, 2022 – BIOTRONIK announced today its partnership with AliveCor, a leading innovator in FDA-cleared personal electrocardiogram (ECG) technology and services. This partnership will combine the strengths of BIOTRONIK’s BI...

Cardiac catheterization labs can be complicated workplaces when it comes to occupational safety. Physicians and nursing staff are working in proximity to a radiation source, and some of the most vulnerable areas of the body are not covered by standar...

Across healthcare systems, many patients will have their first frontline contact with a nurse—and arrhythmia management is no exception. Nurses perform a wide range of tasks and play an important role, not only in immediate medical care, but in answe...

As we mark International Women’s Day 2022, we’re mindful of how much further there still is to go to reach equality in cardiology. There are many facets to that task. As we wrote in a recent blog post, women are still underrepresented in cardiology c...

Cardiovascular research has achieved a lot in the last few decades—but even today the cardiology community is discussing whether the field needs gender-specific guidelines for treating cardiovascular diseases. One of the biggest obstacles is one of t...

Dave Remington, 34, is an active athlete, always on the water and competitive in CrossFit. He also works for one of the largest corporate real estate consulting teams in the world. In early 2020, he started wondering why he wasn’t feeling so well, de...

If there’s one thing to be thankful for this holiday season, it’s the engine of life – the heart. Did you know that over one’s lifetime, the heart beats three billion times and transports 66 million gallons of blood? The heart keeps our circulatory s...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella remarked earlier this year that the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic saw “two years of digital transformation in two months.” As the world moved to working, shopping, and socializing online, necessity drove many aspec...

The vast majority of strokes—about 85 percent—are ischemic. Of these, up to a third are cryptogenic, or have no clear cause. Getting these strokes diagnosed quickly and accurately requires consistent and well-functioning teamwork between cardiologist...

Almost 30 years after the US FDA rescinded a ban on women of “childbearing potential” from participating in clinical studies, women remain underrepresented in many key areas for medical trials—including cardiovascular medicine. This is despite guidan...

When Hannah was diagnosed with a complete heart block, her mom knew it was time to take action. She wrote to Heartbeat International Foundation and the next month Hannah received a BIOTRONIK pacemaker that restored her confidence....

Dr. Raffaele Corbisiero, Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Burlington County, New Jersey, weaves together some medical poetry as he explains the function of the autonomic nervous system and how BIOTRONIK's Closed Loop Stimulation (CLS) interacts with it w...