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 ...

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 ...

Boston, MA - The same kind of hacking that can threaten sensitive information stored on computers may pose a risk to implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) that have wireless programming ...

A long-detection interval approach to programming for implantable cardioverter defibrillators, combined with antitachycardia pacing during charging, was associated with a longer time to first ...

The implantable cardioverter–defibrillator (ICD) is highly effective in reducing mortality among patients at risk for fatal arrhythmias, but inappropriate ICD activations are frequent, with ...

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 ...

Compared with standardized programming, programming with extended detection times could reduce the number of unnecessary ICD shocks by 29%.

1. The program is designed to prepare medical coders already trained in ICD-9 to acquire the ICD-10 training and knowledge they need to take an ICD-10 certification exam.

The public art installation will be on display at ICD Brookfield Place until 23 rd March 2021. The machine and human collaboration, DATAMONOLITH_AI is a representation of the some of the world’s ...

Investigators randomly assigned people to modern ICD programming with or without ATP. Participants were 2,595 primary prevention ICD recipients with a reduced left ventricular ejection fraction ...