BACKGROUND Studies have linked the natural history of many pathologies with environmental physical activity. This study investigated the relationship between the occurrence of ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation (VT/VF) recorded by implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) and geomagnetic and cosmic ray (neutron) activity. METHODS The study group included 85 patients (73 men) with cardio...

AIMS Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy, which includes the risk of shocks, is considered the primary culprit of reductions in patient reported outcomes (PROs; e.g. health status and distress), thereby negating the role of underlying disease severity. We examined the relative influence of living with an ICD vs. congestive heart failure (CHF) on PROs and compared (i) ICD patien...

IMPORTANCE Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are not recommended within 40 days of myocardial infarction (MI); thus, ICD implantation might not be considered during the post-MI care transition. OBJECTIVE To examine ICD implantation rates and associated mortality among older MI patients with low ejection fraction (EF). DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Retrospective observationa...

Introduction The implantation of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) systems in patients with no or limited venous access is technically challenging. After disappointing experiences with epicardial ICD patches, surgical techniques focused on the implantation of subcutaneous high-voltage array electrodes or intrapericardial placement of standard transvenous ICD leads. The Boston Scienti...

The systematic categorization of disorders, provided by the World Health Organization in the "International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death" (ICD) is an essential tool for epidemiological and clinical research, for the indexing of national and international statistics of morbidity and mortality, to monitor health services and to formulate public health polic...

The transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS has expanded educational opportunities for educators and trainers who are taking on the responsibility of training coders on the new system. Coding education currently faces multiple challenges in the areas of how to train the new workforce, what might be the most efficient method of providing that training, how much retraining of the current workforce with ICD-9...

INTRODUCTION The implantation of a cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is an established method of sudden cardiac death (SCD) prevention. The value of ICD therapy in secondary prevention of SCD is unquestionable. Precise identification of high-risk patients and ICD use for primary prevention of SCD, especially in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), remain controversial. Problems inclu...

Two mapping projects are currently underway, creating maps from SNOMED CT to ICD-10 and ICD-10-CM respectively. Even though the two projects belong to different organizations, there has been a lot of synergism between them. The ICD-10-CM map project heavily re-used the mapping methodology, tools and map data developed in the ICD-10 map project. An algorithm was derived to generate candidate ICD...

This article reviews the data related to psychosocial adjustment of young ICD recipients, postulates theories to explain potential adjustment difficulties to ICD therapy experienced by younger recipients, and suggests clinical management techniques for addressing the unique psychosocial concerns of young ICD recipients. Studies of young ICD recipients suggest that a wide range of psychosocial a...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate predictors of appropriate therapy in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) for primary prevention of sudden cardiac death. A retrospective cohort of 321 patients with systolic heart failure undergoing ICD placement for primary prevention of sudden cardiac death was queried with a mean follow-up period of 2.6 years. Appropriate ICD ...