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Jul 28 2023 This Week in Cardiology

This Week in Cardiology

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The Long-Term Downsides of SICDs

The SICD offers a tantalizingly plausible solution. Not having a lead inside the heart results in poor sensing which leads to higher rates of double counting and inappropriate shocks. You can still get the backup to fibrillation but everything is subcutaneous, the lead, and the ICD. But the SICD does come with serious downsides.

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