Nothing inside the heart - Combining epicardial pacing with the S-ICD

Christian Steinberg; Santabhanu Chakrabarti; Andrew D Krahn; Jamil Bashir

doi:10.1016/j.hrcr.2015.04.001

Nothing inside the heart - Combining epicardial pacing with the S-ICD

HeartRhythm Case Rep. 2015 Sep 4;1(6):419-423. doi: 10.1016/j.hrcr.2015.04.001. eCollection 2015 Nov.

Authors

Christian Steinberg¹, Santabhanu Chakrabarti², Andrew D Krahn², Jamil Bashir²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Surgery.
² Division of Cardiac Electrophysiology, University of British Columbia - St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: DFT, defibrillation threshold; Device interaction; Epicardial pacemaker; ICD; ICD, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator; Limited venous access; MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Recurrent device infection; S-ICD; S-ICD, subcutaneous ICD; Sensing screening; VF, ventricular fibrillation; bpm, beats per minute.

Publication types

Case Reports