#123 Pacemakers & ICDs: 5 Pearls Segment
Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast
The Importance of Primary Prevention
The most intuitive indication is for secondary prevention. This is our patients who have ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibulation, or they had a cardiac arrest and we think it's because of a cardiac cause. So you want to prevent a second event in these patients. You want to make sure that the patient has had at least three months of goal-directed medical therapy. And as a throwback to our GDMT episode, at goal means three months of guideline-directed medical Therapy.
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