Clinical value of routine predischarge testing after ICD-implantation | Zendy

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Clinical value of routine predischarge testing after ICD-implantation

Author(s) -

Axel Buob,

S. Siaplaouras,

Dietmar Tscholl,

HansJoachim Schäfers,

Michael Böhm,

Jens Jung

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

ep europace

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.119

H-Index - 102

eISSN - 1532-2092

pISSN - 1099-5129

DOI - 10.1016/j.eupc.2003.11.007

Subject(s) - medicine , defibrillation threshold , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , defibrillation , lead (geology) , cardiology , retrospective cohort study , surgery , geomorphology , geology

After implantation of a cardioverter/defibrillator (ICD) predischarge testing is often performed to ensure appropriate therapy function. Nevertheless there is no proven evidence for the necessity of this examination. In this retrospective single-centre analysis we investigated the clinical value of routine predischarge testing.

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