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Internal Cardioverter Defibrillator: Component Failure
Author(s) -
VLAY STEPHEN C.,
OLSON LINDA C.,
BURGER LYNN
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1990.tb02161.x
Subject(s) - medicine , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , amiodarone , ventricular tachycardia , cardiology , heart failure , refractory (planetary science) , cardiomyopathy , sudden death , tachycardia , atrial fibrillation , physics , astrobiology
Sudden death occurred in a patient with congestive cardiomyopathy, sustained ventricular tachycardia refractory to amiodarone, and an automatic internal Cardioverter defibrillator. Interrogation of the AICD at the time of death was indicative of malfunction. Postmortem analysis documented component failure involving a voltage regulating transistor resulting in prolonged charge times.