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Remotely Monitored Death of a Patient with Implanted ICD
Author(s) -
SCHAER BEAT,
KÜHNE MISCHA,
OSSWALD STEFAN,
STICHERLING CHRISTIAN
Publication year - 2012
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.1540-8159.2011.03269.x
Subject(s) - medicine , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , sudden cardiac death , medical emergency , feature (linguistics) , sudden death , intensive care medicine , cardiology , linguistics , philosophy
Remote monitoring is useful for management of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) patients regarding detection of arrhythmias and probable device or lead failure. We report the case of a patient who died suddenly while being on remote monitoring. The ICD was not retrieved postmortem. Even though clinical circumstances were suspicious of an arrhythmic death, this was excluded due to a distinctive manufacturer feature of the system. (PACE 2012; 35:e280–e283)