Implantable Defibrillators WisdomCard™
Our Guides and Physician Review team have organized the Top 10 Health Resources on Implantable Defibrillators and compiled helpful research notes below.
- eMedicine: Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
emedicine.com - Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
- UptoDate: Patient information: Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators patients.uptodate.com - Patient information: Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators
- Wikipedia: Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator en.wikipedia.org - Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
- Cleveland Clinic: Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) clevelandclinic.org - Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
- Heart Rhythm Society: Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) hrspatients.org - Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
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Research Notes on Implantable Defibrillators
An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), also known as an automated implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (AICD), is a small battery-powered electrical impulse generator which is implanted in patients who are at risk of sudden cardiac death due to ventricular fibrillation.
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Latest Headlines on Implantable Defibrillators
What is Implantable Defibrillators?
- American Heart Association: What Is an Implantable Defibrillator?
- Food and Drug Administration: Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
- American Academy of Family Physicians: What is an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator?
- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI): What Is an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator?
- Mayo Clinic: Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: Controlling a chaotic heart
What Are The Uses for Implantable Defibrillators?
- HealthWise (via WebMD): Treating Abnormal Heart Rhythms: ICD
- Mayo Clinic: Biventricular pacemaker: Cardiac resynchronization therapy for heart failure
- NHLBI: Who Needs an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator?
- MedicineNet: Who should receive an ICD?
What Are The Side Effects, Interactions and Precautions for Implantable Defibrillators?
- MedicineNet: What are the complications of ICD implantation?
- NHLBI: What Are the Risks of Having an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator?
- Mayo Clinic: Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator: After your ICD is implanted
What are the Alternatives to Implantable Defibrillators?
Clinical Trials for Implantable Defibrillators
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Implantable Defibrillator Clinical Trials
- CenterWatch: Implantable Defibrillator Clinical Trials
Message Boards, Chat and Discussions about Implantable Defibrillators
- MedHelp: Sudden death and defibrillators
- HealthBoards: Lead recalls
- DailyStrength: Implantable Defibrillator
Controversy and Lawsuits about Implantable Defibrillators
- NewsInferno: Medtronic Settles Defective Defibrillator Lawsuits for $114 Million
- Resource4thePeople: The Recall of Guidant Defibrillators and Pacemakers
Scientific and Medical Journal Articles on Implantable Defibrillators
- JAMA: Implantable Defibrillators Articles
- PubMedCentral: Implantable Defibrillators Articles
- Google Scholar: Implantable Defibrillators Articles
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- Contributor: Chris Miller
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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- Contributor: Chris Miller
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator, ICD, AICD, Automated Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator, Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators, Internal defibrillators, Implantable cardioverter defibrillator, Automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator, Implantable Defibrillator
- Last update: Sep. 11, 2009
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