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- Title
Efficacy and Safety of the Initial Use of Stability and Onset Criteria in Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators.
- Authors
Weber, Max; BÖcker, Dirk; BÄnsch, Dietmar; Brunn, JÜrgen; Castrucci, Marco; Gradaus, Rainer; Breithardt, GÜnter; Block, Michael
- Abstract
Introduction: Inappropriate therapies are the most frequent adverse event in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). Most ICDs offer a stability criterion to discriminate ventricular tachycardia (VT) from atrial fibrillation and an onset criterion to discriminate VT from sinus tachycardia. The efficacy and safety of these criteria, if used immediately after implantation, is unknown. Methods and Results: In a case control study, 87 patients in whom stability and onset criteria had been activated immediately after ICD implantation were matched to 87 patients in whom these criteria had not been activated. The groups were matched for known predictors of inappropriate therapies. With stability and onset criteria off, 24 patients (28%) received inappropriate therapies due to atrial fibrillation (n = 14) or sinus tachycardia (n = 11); with stability and onset on, only 11 patients (13%) were treated by the lCD due to atrial fibrillation (n = 5) or sinus tachycardia (n = 7) (log rank: P = 0.029), Five patients suffered Inappropriate therapies despite the fact that onset (n = 4) or stability (n = 1) criteria were not fulfilled once tachycardias continued for a prespecified duration. Only one patient experienced a failure to detect VT due to the onset criterion; none because of stability. Conclusion: The immediate use of stability and onset criteria after lCD Implantation reduces inappropriate therapies due to atrial fibrillation and sinus tachycardia. Because of the potential for underdetection of VT, this approach should be limited to tachycardia rates hemodynamically tolerated by the patient.
- Subjects
DEFIBRILLATORS; ATRIAL fibrillation; PATIENTS; ELECTRONICS in cardiology; ELECTRIC countershock; ATRIAL arrhythmias
- Publication
Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 1999, Vol 10, Issue 2, p145
- ISSN
1045-3873
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-8167.1999.tb00655.x