In a comparison of two ICD follow-up strategies, automatic wireless remote monitoring or device interrogation at regular in-office visits, conducted in >1300 patients, the automated approach ...

In general, the remote monitoring was seen as a potential tool to improve the clinical management of ICD patients. In the present experience we recorded brief review times, confirming that remote ...

(HealthDay News) – A software monitoring program that tracks implantable cardioverter-defibrillator lead function could detect problems with the devices earlier than current monitoring processes.

In a recent study it was found that home monitoring system with daily telemetry in patients with ICDs (implantable cardioverter defibrilators) is a safe procedure and decreases the number of ...

Varma said since sensing, monitoring and recording — highly power-consuming functions — are performed by the CCM rechargeable circuits, the ICD battery is preserved for VF events.

A gene associated with sudden cardiac death in the general population has been identified using implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) monitoring in research presented for the first time at ...

but not from ICD telemetry. A single interim analysis of efficacy was performed by an external safety and efficacy monitoring committee after 66 deaths — about half the anticipated number ...

Follow-up included monitoring for any additional complications ... significant device-pocket hematoma in each subgroup. ICD denotes implantable cardioverter–defibrillator. There was one episode ...