Does optimized ICD programming (higher detection rate, longer detection intervals, empiric ATP, and optimized SVT discriminators) reduce ICD therapies and prolong time to first shock in patients with a primary prevention indication?
Optimized ICD programming strategies, including higher detection rates and longer intervals, safely reduce ICD therapies and are associated with improved survival in primary prevention patients.
A combination of programmed parameters utilizing higher detection rate, longer detection intervals, empiric ATP, and optimized SVT discriminators reduced ICD therapies without increasing arrhythmic syncope and was associated with reduction in all-cause mortality among ICD patients.
Saeed et al. (Tue,) studied this question.
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