Implantation of cardioverter defibrillators without induction of ventricular fibrillation

Circulation
C D Swerdlow

Abstract

The upper limit of vulnerability (ULV) is the weakest shock at which ventricular fibrillation (VF) is not induced by a T-wave shock. This study tested the hypothesis that a vulnerability safety margin based on the ULV can be used as an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation criterion. Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators were implanted in 80 patients if T-wave shocks did not induce VF and the baseline-rhythm R wave was >/=7 mV. The T-wave shock was 10 J in the first 45 patients (group A) and 15 J in the last 35 patients (group B). After inductionless implantations, the first VF shock was programmed to the T-wave shock plus 5 J. If T-wave shocks induced VF, the ULV was measured and the first shock was programmed to the ULV+5 J. Inductionless implantations were performed in 58 patients (72%), 28 in group A (62%) and 30 in group B (86%; P=0.04). If T-wave scanning had been done at 15 J in group A patients, inductionless implantations could have been performed in 84% of them. At 3 months, VF was induced twice during electrophysiological study in 75 patients (94%). All VFs were detected in </=4.7 s and were terminated by the first shock. During follow-up, 197 of 198 appropriate first shocks for rapid ventricular tach...Continue Reading

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