Cardiologists suggest patient-centered approach to replacing implantable cardioverter-defibrillators
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 17:00
in Physics & Chemistry
More than 100,000 implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are implanted in the United States annually, fully a quarter of those are generator replacements simply because the battery is depleted. But are all those replacements necessary and should they actually be performed?