An emergency-room doctor attaches paddles to a patient's chest and delivers an electric jolt to the heart. That's a defibrillator in action, a desperate attempt to jump-start a heart whose rhythms ...

the wire and the defibrillator, so each of them acts like a paddle.” Khaja continued. David Vickers was the first patient in Bay County to have the EVICD implanted last month. He says he suffers ...