electrical impedance monitoring has only limited effectiveness in preventing adverse clinical events, specifically inappropriate shocks, resulting from fracture of ICD leads

Heart Rhythm. 2009 Jan;6(1):e5-6; author reply e6. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.11.017. Epub 2008 Nov 24.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Defibrillators, Implantable / adverse effects*
  • Electric Countershock / adverse effects
  • Electric Countershock / instrumentation*
  • Electric Impedance
  • Equipment Failure
  • Humans
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / methods*
  • Risk Factors
  • Tachycardia / therapy*