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Patient Management: When ICD Leads Go Awry
... can malfunction. The natural life of a well-performing ICD lead, for instance, is about 10 years or so; however, several models of ... conversation with a patient in whom he had implanted an ICD in 2005. The ICD had been operating properly and twice had delivered ...
mrivera - 2013-05-02 09:36
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May/Jun 2013
... Articles: Patient Management: When ICD Leads Go Awry Doctoring Amid Devices HRS.13: Expanding ...
mrivera - 2013-05-20 15:37
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Shades of gray
... more costly and more morbid device for patients receiving an ICD for primary prevention.” Nor did a panel of experts hold back in a ...
cstuart - 2013-05-20 11:43
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ICD duel: Lower complication rates with single-chamber devices
... sudden cardiac death. “Because implanting a dual-chamber ICD is a more complex and time-consuming procedure than implanting a ... data from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry’s ICD registry, they identified 32,034 patients from 1,270 hospitals in the U.S. ...
cstuart - 2013-05-16 10:51
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Kudos to conferences
... At HRS.13, for instance, an analysis of the EFFORTLESS S-ICD Registry containing data from hospitals in Europe and New Zealand showed ... Credit the National Cardiovascular Data Registry’s ICD registry as the bedrock for a study published in the May 15 issue of ...
cstuart - 2013-05-16 10:15
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Code Warriors
... net optimal reimbursement and gird for the switch to ICD-10. Medical coding has become the backbone of optimizing medical ... 2013—the amended compliance deadline for the switch from ICD-9-CM (Clinical Modification) to ICD-10-CM or ICD-10-PCS (Procedure Coding ...
chunter - 2013-05-14 10:39
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Why is Cardiology Data So Challenging?
... rehabilitation and implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) follow-ups, among others. “There is continuum in terms of patient care ...
trimedstaff - 2013-05-13 14:34
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Advance III: Longer-interval ICDs offer some benefits
... (Avoid Delivering Therapies for Nonsustained Arrhythmias in ICD Patients III) that showed longer-interval ICDs to be safe and effective. ... present, the ‘out of the box’ settings used by some ICD manufacturers may be too conservative, with nominal treatment delays as ...
cstuart - 2013-05-08 10:43
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FDA approves devices by Medtronic, Biotronik
... approvals of two implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) and cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillator (CRT-D) technologies. ... reported that the agency gave thumbs up to its Ilesto 7 ICD/CRT-D series. The move follows the February approval of Biotronik’s ...
cstuart - 2013-05-07 18:13
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Toshiba's new EP package optimizes procedures to improve patient care
... luminance for implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) and pacemaker insertions and is installed on an extended ceiling arm to ...
egodt - 2013-05-07 17:00