Population
A 57-year-old man with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator experiencing multiple inappropriate shocks.
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
6 months
Authors
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Alerts clinicians to interrogation-triggered ICD shocks with deactivated magnet; case report leaves open need for multiple inactivation methods.
This case highlights the risk of inappropriate ICD shocks triggered by interrogation when the magnet switch is deactivated, emphasizing the need for multiple device inactivation methods.
Hunn et al. (1998) studied this question.
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