Two months after federal regulators approved the first defibrillator that can be placed under the skin instead of connecting directly to the heart, doctors at Brigham and Women’s Hospital implanted three of the new devices Monday in patients at risk of cardiac arrest. Laurence M. Epstein, HMS associate professor of medicine and Bruce A. Koplan, HMS assistant professor of medicine, implanted the defibrillators.
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