Pacemakers and defibrillators have a growing use in pediatrics and in patients with congenital heart disease, but they present unique problems and implications for their implantation and follow-up.

A defibrillator and a pacemaker are two different, but similar, devices, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Generally, pacemakers treat bradycardia, or a slow heartbeat, and implantable cardiac ...

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s heart clinics treat about 200 children a year. This includes Audrey Koch, a Roswell teen with a heart condition called Long QT syndrome.