The Cottage Heart & Vascular Center’s structural heart team at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (SBCH) recently performed their 1,000th WATCHMAN device procedure, a minimally invasive solution for ...

A device smaller than a quarter is giving heart patients a new lease on life. The Watchman device is implanted in the heart to prevent blood clots from forming without the need of blood thinners. This ...

(Updated) SAN FRANCISCO, California — Preliminary data from the PREVAIL study of the Watchman (AtriTech/Boston Scientific) device for the prevention of stroke and systemic embolism in patients with ...

Rock Island, Ill.-based Trinity Heart Center recently implanted its 100th Watchman device, ourquadcities.com reported Feb. 17. In 2020, the center became the first and only healthcare provider in the ...

and hopes to launch the device in the second half of 2027 or early 2028. Watchman is used to reduce the risk of stroke in people with atrial fibrillation by sealing off the left atrial appendage, a ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Lovelace Heart Hospital is celebrating the new addition of their 1,000th heart device. Called the Watchman, the device offers patients who have heart problems, like ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 70-year old woman with a prior history of asymptomatic atrial fibrillation (AFib). I’ve been in normal sinus rhythm since having two catheter ablations in 2018. I take Eliquis ...

CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center reached a significant milestone this week by successfully performing their 300th procedure with the "watchman" device. The "watchman left ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -At the What Knot Shoppe in Austinburg, co-owner Stacy Joslin does a lot of heavy lifting and moving furniture. But ever since her atrial fibrillation diagnosis, she’s been on ...

More special care is needed when using the Watchman access systems used to deliver transcatheter left atrial appendage (LAA) closure devices due to a risk for air embolisms, according to an FDA alert.