Clinical assessment and management of patients with implanted cardioverter-defibrillators presenting to nonelectrophysiologists

Circulation. 2004 Dec 21;110(25):3866-9. doi: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000149716.03295.7C.

Abstract

All physicians increasingly will encounter patients who have implanted cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) for protection from ventricular arrhythmias. This advisory provides a concise summary relevant to the assessment and management of patients with ICDs, including those who present to primary care or emergency department physicians with symptoms suggesting arrhythmia or ICD malfunction and those who require cardiac or surgical procedures.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Arrhythmia Agents / administration & dosage
  • Anti-Arrhythmia Agents / therapeutic use
  • Case Management
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Contraindications
  • Death, Sudden, Cardiac / etiology
  • Death, Sudden, Cardiac / prevention & control
  • Defibrillators, Implantable* / adverse effects
  • Electric Countershock* / adverse effects
  • Electric Injuries / etiology
  • Electrocoagulation
  • Emergencies
  • Equipment Failure
  • Humans
  • Intraoperative Complications / prevention & control
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Magnetics / adverse effects
  • Surgical Wound Infection / etiology
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / complications
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / drug therapy
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / therapy*
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / complications
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / drug therapy
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / therapy*

Substances

  • Anti-Arrhythmia Agents