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Can you tell me which is your experience with your implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (icd)?
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ICD: Icds are implanted to monitor the electrical activity of very abnormal hearts to see if a life threatening rhythm occurs. If it detects one of these rhythms, it will charge its capacitor and fire a shock to defibrillate the heart back to stable rhythm. In appropriate patients these devices save lives.
Answered 1/10/2015
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