Abstract
The CPI PRxII is a recently approved, multitiered implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) that delivers high and low energy biphasic shocks, antitachycardia (ATP) and bradycardia pacing, and stores 2.5 minutes of electrograms from the widely spaced shocking electrodes. The PRxII was implanted in 58 patients at Yale-New Haven Hospital between December 1993 and January 1995. At implant, mean biphasic defibrillation threshold (DFT) in patients with testing to failure was 10 J (1-20). All 36 patients who were candidates for a new transvenous system underwent successful nonthoracotomy implantation. Based on noninvasive predischarge EPS results, 30 patients had > or = 1 VT zone: 21 patients had ATP, 9 others had first shock < or = 5 J. During follow-up, 13 patients had been treated for 379 events (range, 1-127). Of 340 events in a zone with ATP, 97% responded to ATP, 3% required shock. First programmed shock converted all events in a VF zone. Details, including RR intervals, were available for all events in 15 of 17 patients receiving appropriate or inappropriate therapy or diverted shocks. One hundred eleven of 148 available electrograms confirmed VT by morphology, rate, and/or presence of AV dissociation. In nine patients, ele...Continue Reading
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