
#123 Pacemakers & ICDs: 5 Pearls Segment
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
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The Role of a Pacemaker in Pacing
A defibrillator's primary function is to terminate a life-threatening, fast arrhythmia ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia. To understand how those ICDs actually treat those fast rheathms, we need to understand why the fast rhythm is happening in the first place. The majority of VTE or that these devices treat are re-entrant arrhythmias which means somewhere in the heart there's a little scar and the electrical current gets stuck there.
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