ICD implantation for primary or secondary prevention of sudden cardiac death has been shown to improve survival in patients with ejection fractions of less than 35%. Reducing appropriate and inappropriate shock therapy has been shown to reduce morbidity in these patients. The role of an atrial lead...
While the ICD-9 diagnosis code set defined 1 approximately 13,000 different diagnosis codes, ICD-10 has defined approximately 68,000 different codes with the flexibility to add more new diagnosis codes as need. Both ICD-9 and ICD-10 diagnosis codes need to be stored as SAS character ...
In this article, we report the use of S-ICD in a patient with HCM and multiple risk factors for sudden cardiac death, this device had to be extracted due to recurrent inappropriate shocks caused by over sensing of atrial flutter and failure to treat a VT episode. We are not aware of ...
The main hypothesis of the work presented here is:(H1) It is possible to code, as OWL axioms, the ICD-10-CM inclusion terms obtained from SNOMED CT/ICD-10-CM mappings and use these OWL axioms to build an OWL representation of the ICD-10-CM diseases. As a result(H2) we obtain a u...
(CRTs), and devices that include a combination of such capabilities. The devices can be used to treat patients using electrical or other therapy or to aid a physician or caregiver in patient diagnosis through internal monitoring of a patient's condition. The devices may include one or more ...
The 3-year rate of inappropriate ICD therapy atrial flutter/fibrillation was 8% in the single-chamber versus 3% in the dual-chamber patients (P = 0.006) (Figure 1) with adjusted dual: single hazard ratio of 0.47, p=0.03. There was no difference in appropriate shocks or mortality between ...