Lolita Jones, RHIA, CSS, independent coding and billing consultant, discusses 10 ways ICD-10 will affect billing and coding processes in an ambulatory surgery center. This article is the fourth ...

Lolita Jones, RHIA, CSS, independent coding and billing consultant, discusses five ways ICD-10 will affect patient surgical encounters in an ambulatory surgery center. This article is the third ...

To implant an ICD, a healthcare professional will perform minor surgery. They can place the ICD intravenously, meaning they move it along a blood vessel and into the chambers of the heart.

Is ventricular tachyarrhythmias ablation beneficial before implantable cardioverter-defibrillator terminated arrhythmias in patients with prior myocardial infarction?

Over the course of four years, Schmidt and colleagues took respiratory and cardiac measurements of nearly 2,000 heart patients across various European cardiac hospitals. Roughly half of these ...