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Pacing Induced Ventricular Fibrillation in Internal Cardioverter Defibrillator Patients: A New Form of Proarrhythmia
Author(s) -
VLAY LINDA C.,
VLAY STEPHEN C.
Publication year - 1997
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.1540-8159.1997.tb04824.x
Subject(s) - medicine , proarrhythmia , defibrillation , cardiology , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , ventricular fibrillation , cardioversion , atrial fibrillation
Current model internal cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) have cardioversion, defibrillation, pacemaker, and telemetry function. Telemetry documents arrhythmia and facilitates therapeutic adjustments. We report two cases of pacing induced VF terminated by the defibrillator, with the device responsible for both initiation and correction of the arrhythmia.