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Atlanta, GA - The emotional well-being of ICD recipients makes it imperative that clinicians take steps to reduce the occurrence of both appropriate and inappropriate ICD shocks, a new review ...

We randomly assigned 1500 patients with a primary-prevention indication to receive an ICD with one of three programming configurations. The primary objective was to determine whether programmed ...

Sudden cardiac death is a common cause of death in patients with congenital or acquired heart disease. An implanted cardiac defibrillator (ICD) can effectively put a stop to any underlying cardiac ...

An ICD programming strategy that allows delayed detection of arrhythmias has been shown to reduce unnecessary and inappropriate therapies. Alessandro Proclemer, M.D., of the Azienda Ospedaliera ...

Increasing the detection intervals in ICD programming can reduce the number of unnecessary or inappropriate shocks, according to results of the ADVANCE III study published in JAMA. A group of ...

ICDs with this programming significantly reduced first all-cause ICD shock compared with shock-only devices over the average follow-up of 38 months (HR 0.72, 95% CI 0.57-0.92, P=0.005 for ...

December 20, 2006 (Atlanta, GA) - The emotional well-being of ICD recipients makes it imperative that clinicians take steps to reduce the occurrence of both appropriate and inappropriate ICD ...