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Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator and Inappropriate Therapy: “Black Box” Examination Yielded Both Human and Technical Causes

We report on a 70-year-old male patient who was recipient of GEM III DR 7275 Cardioverter Defibrillator, and who presented with inappropriate shocks. The patient had a documented slow ventricular tachycardia (VT), and the device was programmed to detect VT at rates >100 bpm, fast VT (FVT, via VT)...

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Autor principal: Kossaify, Antoine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Libertas Academica 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3859824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24348078
http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/CCRep.S13380