Population
102 consecutive patients undergoing ICD placement with an active pectoral can and dual coil transvenous lead
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Cohort
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Clinical predictors add little to DFT estimation in pectoral ICDs; hypothesis-generating for unmeasured factors in the minority exceeding 15 J.
Clinical factors are of limited utility for predicting defibrillation thresholds in patients receiving active pectoral ICDs, as the vast majority achieve acceptable thresholds regardless of baseline parameters.
Hodgson et al. (2002) studied this question.
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