March 21, 2000Circulation
Canadian Implantable Defibrillator Study (CIDS)
Comparison
ICD therapy vs amiodarone
Authors
Discussion
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Member takes
Implication
No significant mortality benefit of ICD over amiodarone; leaves open comparative efficacy in high-risk patients.
Structured PICO
I
Intervention
ICD therapy
C
Comparator
amiodarone
O
Outcome
all-cause mortality and arrhythmic mortalityhard clinical
ICD therapy provided a non-statistically significant reduction in all-cause and arrhythmic mortality compared to amiodarone.
Cite This Study
Connolly et al. (2000) studied this question.