An uncommon cause of inappropriate ICD shock

George Bazoukis; Konstantinos P Letsas; Konstantinos Vlachos; Gary Tse; Dimitrios Manolatos; Antonios Sideris; Michael Efremidis; Sotirios Xydonas

doi:10.1002/ccr3.2782

An uncommon cause of inappropriate ICD shock

Clin Case Rep. 2020 Mar 10;8(6):1109-1111. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.2782. eCollection 2020 Jun.

Authors

George Bazoukis¹, Konstantinos P Letsas¹, Konstantinos Vlachos¹, Gary Tse^{2

3}, Dimitrios Manolatos¹, Antonios Sideris¹, Michael Efremidis¹, Sotirios Xydonas¹

Affiliations

¹ Second Department of Cardiology Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens Athens Greece.
² Tianjin Key Laboratory of Ionic-Molecular Function of Cardiovascular Disease Department of Cardiology, Tianjin Institute of Cardiology Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University Tianjin China.
³ Xiamen Cardiovascular Hospital Xiamen University Xiamen China.

Abstract

In cases of electromagnetic interference (EMI), if the source of the inappropriate EMI cannot be identified, then the sensitivity of the device could be decreased, or the cycle length of the VF detection trigger zone changed.

Keywords: electromagnetic interference; implantable cardioverter‐defibrillator; inappropriate interventions; inappropriate shock.