Doctors Studying New Device That Helps Regulate Blood Pressure, Heart Rate

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — After a heart attack, Fred Fortson’s heart didn’t work as well as it should.
“Walking upstairs, walking a distance, and I started to get shortening of breath,” Fortson said.
As part of a study, he had a new kind of stimulator put in, called Barostim.
“I’m very glad I took part in it. And I think I was first in the city,” he says. “Of course, I was a little scared.”
It stimulates baroreceptors, which are special senso