Piedmont Athens Among First Hospitals in U.S. to Implant First-Of-Its-Kind Extravascular Defibrillator to Treat Abnormal Heart Rhythms
September 11, 2024
September 11, 2024
FAYETTEVILLE, Georgia, Sept. 11 -- Piedmont issued the following news release:
Athens, Ga. (September 10, 2024) - Kent Nilsson, M.D., and Trent Magruder, M.D., Piedmont Heart Institute physicians who are based at Piedmont Athens Regional, are among the first surgeons in Georgia to successfully implant a novel extravascular defibrillator to treat patients with dangerously fast heart rhythms, a condition that can lead to sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). The Medtronic Extravascular Implant . . .
Athens, Ga. (September 10, 2024) - Kent Nilsson, M.D., and Trent Magruder, M.D., Piedmont Heart Institute physicians who are based at Piedmont Athens Regional, are among the first surgeons in Georgia to successfully implant a novel extravascular defibrillator to treat patients with dangerously fast heart rhythms, a condition that can lead to sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). The Medtronic Extravascular Implant . . .