Incidence and clinical predictors of low defibrillation safety margin at time of implantable defibrillator implantation JOURNAL OF INTERVENTIONAL CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY Cheng, Z., Turakhia, M., Lo, R., Gupta, A., Zei, P. C., Hsia, H. H., Al-Ahmad, A., Wang, P. J. 2012; 34 (1): 93-100

Abstract

Determination of the defibrillation safety margin (DSM) is the most common method of testing device effectiveness at the time of implantation of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) or cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRTD). Low DSM remains a problem in clinical practice.The purpose of this study is to ascertain the incidence and clinical predictors of low DSM and the treatment strategies for low DSM in ICD or CRTD recipients.Selected ICD or CRTD recipients from January 2006 to May 2008 who underwent DSM test at the time of implantation were included. Low DSM patients were defined as patients who had a DSM within 10 J of the maximum delivered energy of the device. These patients were compared to patients who had DSM?>?10 J.This study included 243 patients. Of these, 13 (5.3%) patients had low DSM, and 230 patients had adequate DSM. Patients with low DSM had a high prevalence of amiodarone use (69% vs 13%, p?

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