Saving lives and reducing inappropriate device therapy: The MADIT family of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and cardiac resynchronization therapy trials
In 1980, Mirowski et al. [1] reported the first 3 patients treated with an automatic implantable defibrillator (AID). At that time, the AID was implanted with electrodes attached to the epicardium through a surgical thoracotomy with the battery portion of the unit placed undeer the skin in the abdominal wall. The AID detected the onset of ventricular fibrillation through a unique algorithm and the device was considered a “shock box” since shock was the only therapy delivered...
Wydane przez: Via Medica
Data wydania: 2013-06-10
Język: angielski
Profil:
choroby sercowo-naczyniowe
Rodzaj: Artykuł, Dostęp: Dla wszystkich, Odpłatność: Darmowe