Key result
ICD successfully terminates electrocution-induced ventricular fibrillation after electromagnetic interference ceases.
Why the study?
Deaths caused by electrocution are usually accidental and rarely suicidal, and the interaction between electrocution and ICD function is not well documented.
Design
Case report
Authors
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May protect against suicidal electrocution; hypothesis-generating case that should not change practice or device programming.
Case Report (n=1)
This case demonstrates that an ICD can withstand external electrocution and successfully terminate subsequent ventricular fibrillation once electromagnetic interference ceases.
GINWALLA et al. (2009) conducted a case report in Electrocution-induced ventricular fibrillation (n=1). Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) was evaluated on Termination of ventricular fibrillation. An implantable cardioverter defibrillator successfully detected and terminated electrocution-induced ventricular fibrillation after the electromagnetic interference stopped.
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