Pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT) is an atypical heart rhythm that can cause chest pain, fainting, and cardiac arrest. Doctors treat it with cardiopulmonary resuscitation, defibrillators, and ...
Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2006;29(1):70-96. ICDs misclassify effective therapy as ineffective if VT/VF recurs before the ICD determines the VT/VF episode as terminated and reclassifies the ...
Primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) equipped for antitachycardia pacing (ATP) offered fewer first device shocks but perhaps at a cost, the APPRAISE ATP randomized trial ...
Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2005;28(12):1322-1346. The performance of SVT-VT discriminators is linked to boundaries between detection zones for ventricular arrhythmias. In Guidant ICDs, this link is ...