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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"implantable cardioverter-defibrillators"”.
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Risk stratification in patients with heart failure and in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators
… death in patients with heart failure such as Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICD) are expensive and do not abolish the risk of sudden death completely. Hence it is necessary to improve risk stratification methods in patients with heart failure and identify factors predicting mortality …
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Incidence and Clinical Predictors of Risk Factors for Inappropriate Shock in Patients with Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
… unresolved medical problem worldwide. Although Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators (ICD) are highly effective in diagnosing and treating life threatening arrhythmias, inappropriate shock therapy (IST) occurs in approximately 5-20% of ICD recipients. IST results in pain, anxiety, induction of …
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Performance of re-used pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators compared with new devices at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
… the performance of re - used pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) in Africa. We sought to compare the risk of infection and the rate of malfunction of re - used pacemakers and ICDs with new devices at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Methods: This …
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An automated web-based searchable archive for implantable cardioverter defibrillator data
… electrograms and related patient data from implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) produced by Medtronic in particular. The archive will provide a central and stable repository for researchers looking for data originally stored in the ICDs. The Web interface to the system provides an …
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St. Jude Medical: ST Monitoring
… by implanted cardiac leads, like those used with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD). The St. Jude Medical algorithm called ST Monitoring was designed to continuously monitor the ST-Segments and detect when there has been a significant shift. This thesis describes the implementation of …
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Hearts and minds : how do people experience and psychologically recover from traumatic cardiac treatment-related events?
… cardiac treatments: heart transplantation and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD). It was hoped that such an endeavour would yield novel insights into these treatments that might facilitate the development of pertinent theory and psychotherapeutic approaches designed to alleviate the …
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A novel means of cardiac catheter guidance for ablation therapy of ventricular tachycardia
… the development of ventricular tachycardia (VT). Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) have been found to be successful in terminating VT but do not prevent the initiation of the arrhythmia. Alternatively, the radiofrequency (RF) ablation procedure has been recently used as a potentially …
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Women’s experiences of living with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator
Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are used to treat lethal arrhythmias in patients identified as at risk of sudden cardiac death and can form an additional part of a cardiac resynchronisation therapy device (CRT) which is used for the treatment of heart failure. These cardiac devices …
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Psychological Well-Being and Health-Related Quality of Life Following Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation, A Prospective Study
… and potentially fatal cardiac arrhythmia. Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) are first-line therapy for treatment of VT. However, ICD shocks can have a profound impact on psychological well-being and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Catheter ablation of VT is a novel …
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Embodied revelation: The threat of sudden cardiac death for implantable cardioverter defibrillator candidates
… the primary cause of death in the United States. Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) represent the standard of care as the only effective therapy for primary prevention of sudden cardiac death. However, a significant proportion of qualifying heart failure patients declines this …
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The Rationale, Design and Implementation of the African Cardiomyopathy and Myocarditis Registry
… in survival between those with and without implantable cardioverter defibrillators [p=0.27]. In the prevalent DCM cohort (n=133), transplant-free survival probability was 93.4%, 82.2% and 73.1% at 1-year, 5-years and 10-years respectively, with a median survival time of 5.3 years. The age of …
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Physics-based and data-driven modeling of multi-active material electrode batteries
… electrode batteries powering Medtronic's implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). I present a many-particle Hybrid-MPET model for medium-rate Li/silver vanadium oxide (SVO) battery that predicts the impact of reaction heterogeneity across particle populations on previously …
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Aligning Patients' Defibrillator Status with their Goals of Care: A Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Project at Parkland Hospital
BACKGROUND: Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs) are resuscitative devices that prevent death from certain cardiac arrythmias. More than 150,000 devices are implanted in the United States annually. Because a patients' goals may evolve over time, current guidelines direct providers to …
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Parametric heart modelling and in silico closed-loop validation of implantable devices
… systems (MCPS), such as cardiac pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), are life-critical and context-aware. These devices have been increasingly used to provide continuous health-care for patients. The complicated heterogeneous physical dynamics of patients brings …
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Patients' Psychological Adjustment to an Implanted Cardioverter Defibrillator
… psychological adjustment to an implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). The holistic model of cardiovascular health (depicting how psychological factors, including anxiety and depression, can lead to physiological effects) was used as the conceptual framework for the study.<br> Beery's …
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Aligning Patients' Defibrillator Status with their Goals of Care: A Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Project at Parkland Hospital
BACKGROUND: Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs) are life-prolonging devices that prevent death from life-threatening arrythmias. Over 150,000 devices are implanted in the US each year. Given the possibility of patient goals evolving over their life course, current national guidelines …
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Propuesta de un sistema de monitorización remota de dispositivos implantados en pacientes cardiológicos : Consideraciones económicas, organizativas y de calidad percibida
… denominados Desfibriladores Automáticos Implantables. Estos equipos, de unos 70 gr. de peso, están conectados al corazón del paciente, y son capaces de monitorizar la actividad eléctrica del mismo y actuar mediante descargas eléctricas evitando posibles muertes. Estos complejos …