“This document is a long overdue effort to provide analysis and guidance to the clinician as to how to make strategic programming choices in the implementation of ICD therapy,” Bruce ...

Wilkoff explained that standardized ICD programming could reduce the number of patient shocks by preventing the detection of nonsustained tachycardias, by preventing the detection of SVT as VT ...

In this regard, attention should be paid to the ICD programming parameters suggested by clinical studies and trials. Telemetry issues regarding one or both of the devices may also arise.

A long-detection interval approach to programming for implantable cardioverter ... on 1,902 patients who were undergoing first-time ICD implantation at 94 centers from 2008 to 2010.

Programming of ICD therapies for tachyarrhythmias of 200 beats per minute or higher or with a prolonged delay in therapy at 170 beats per minute or higher, as compared with conventional ...

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 ...

Penn Foster, a U.S. for-profit, regionally and nationally-accredited online career school, will offer a new International Classification of Diseases certification program, ICD-10 Training for ICD ...

Programming implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy zones to high ranges to prevent delivery of inappropriate device therapies in primary prevention patients: Results from the RISSY-ICD ...

Data from MADIT-RIT, presented at the AHA 2012 Scientific Sessions and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, indicate that, by adjusting the ICD algorithm to differentiate between ...