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How can a doctor implant an automatic defibrillator in a heart?
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ICD: for ICD and pacemakers the leads which actually contact the heart are put in through the veins. The actual battery and pulse/shock generator are put in subcutaneously by surgical incision.
Answered 5/15/2015
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