Publicly Reporting Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Outcomes

Publicly reporting implantable cardioverter defibrillator outcomes: grading the report card.

The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in efforts by both payors and governmental agencies to measure and publicly report patient outcomes to ensure that patients receive appropriate, high-quality care. As a result, terms such as outcomes, quality, report cards, and benchmarking have entered the lexicon of clinical medicine, and both physicians and hospitals are increasingly being held ac...

Editorial Publicly Reporting Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Outcomes Grading the Report Card

The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in efforts by both payors and governmental agencies to measure and publicly report patient outcomes to ensure that patients receive appropriate, high-quality care. As a result, terms such as outcomes, quality, report cards, and benchmarking have entered the lexicon of clinical medicine, and both physicians and hospitals are increasingly being held ac...

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator in a patient with dextrocardia situs inversus

Background: Dextrocardia is a congenital anomaly, which may have coexistent coronary artery disease (CAD), arrhythmias and conventional indications for device therapy. However, the implantation of transvenous leads can be technically challenging and the approach needs to be tailored to the patient's individual anatomy. Case presentation: A 54-year-old male with dextrocardia situs inversus and i...

Subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.

or nearly 3 decades, the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) has been available to patients who survived life-threatening rapid heart rhythms or are at risk of experiencing them. The ICD comprises a device generator coupled with a defibrillation lead. Traditional ICDs are implanted under the skin with the generator positioned beneath the collar bone. The defibrilla-tion lead is inserte...

Subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator.