Shock therapy. How donut magnets can suspend inappropriate ICD shocks Journal Article uri icon
Overview
abstract
  • EMS crews encounter implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) daily, but these encounters rarely involve ICDs firing repeatedly on an awake, alert and understandably frightened individual. But that's exactly what happened when an EMS crew from Cottage Grove, Minn., responded to a man with a known heart condition who reported that his implantable defibrillator was firing inappropriately.

  • Link to Article
    publication date
  • 2008
  • Research
    keywords
  • *Defibrillators, Implantable
  • *Emergency Medical Services
  • *Equipment Failure
  • Magnetics/*instrumentation
  • Additional Document Info
    volume
  • 33
  • issue
  • 7