This review highlights new developments in cardiac implantable electronic devices, with an emphasis on pacemakers, newer modes of pacing, and implantable cardioverter–defibrillators.

Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto. The European Parliament has approved a decision to mandate that all electronic devices sold in the EU must have a universal charging port in the coming years.

More than 50 percent of all electronic device failures are heat-related, and data centers, which today consume 3.7% of total U.S. power demand, are predicted to reach 10% by 2029.