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Aborted Implantable Cardioverter‐Defibrillator Shock During Facial Electrosurgery
Author(s) -
CASAVANT DAVID,
HAFFAJEE CHARLES,
STEVENS STEPHANIE,
PACETTI PATRICIA
Publication year - 1998
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.1540-8159.1998.tb00198.x
Subject(s) - medicine , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , defibrillation , electrosurgery , shock (circulatory) , cardiology , surgery
A patient with a fourth‐generation transvenous implantable cardioverter‐defibrillator system nearly received an inappropriate defibrillation discharge while undergoing electrofulguration of keratotic facial skin lesions. The incident was confirmed by analyses of the implantable cardioverter‐defibrillator's time/date stamped event log and stored electrogram record. Therapy was withheld by the noncommitted implantable cardioverter‐defibrillator as the pulsed electrocautery was not continued beyond the charging period.