Undetected Ventricular Fibrillation in Transvenous Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators

Circulation ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Natale ◽  
Jasbir Sra ◽  
Kathi Axtell ◽  
Masood Akhtar ◽  
Keith Newby ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ventricular Fibrillation ◽  
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators ◽  
Cardioverter Defibrillators

Mechanisms of Ventricular Fibrillation Initiation in MADIT II Patients with Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
RYAN ANTHONY ◽  
JAMES P. DAUBERT ◽  
WOJCIECH ZAREBA ◽  
MARK L. ANDREWS ◽  
SCOTT McNITT ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ventricular Fibrillation ◽  
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators ◽  
Cardioverter Defibrillators ◽  
Madit Ii

How implantable cardioverter-defibrillators work and simple programming

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (S1) ◽  
pp. S121-S125
Author(s):  
Randall M. Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Ventricular Fibrillation ◽  
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator ◽  
Electronic Device ◽  
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators ◽  
Cardioverter Defibrillator ◽  
Degree Of Protection ◽  
Coronary Death ◽  
Cardiac Electrical Activity ◽  
Sudden Coronary Death ◽  
Cardioverter Defibrillators

AbstractFollowing the sudden death of a friend in 1966, Dr Michel Mirowski began pioneering work on the first implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. By 1969 he had developed an experimental model and performed the first transvenous defibrillation. In 1970 he reported on the use of a “standby automatic defibrillator” that was tested successfully in dogs. He postulated that such a device “when adapted for clinical use, might be implanted temporarily or permanently in selected patients particularly prone to develop ventricular fibrillation and thus provide them with some degree of protection from sudden coronary death”. In 1980 he reported on the first human implants of an “electronic device designed to monitor cardiac electrical activity, to recognise ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachyarrhythmias … and then to deliver corrective defibrillatory discharges”. Through innovations in circuitry, battery, and capacitor technologies, the current implantable cardioverter-defibrillator is 10 times smaller and exponentially more sophisticated than that first iteration. This article will review the inner workings of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and outline several features that make it the wonder in technology that it has become.

Efficacy of low-energy t wave shocks for induction of ventricular fibrillation in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anil K. Bhandari ◽  
Nidal Isber ◽  
Manuel Estioko ◽  
Thomas Ziccardi ◽  
David S. Cannom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ventricular Fibrillation ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators ◽  
T Wave ◽  
Cardioverter Defibrillators
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