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A New Single Chamber Implantable Defibrillator with Atrial Sensing: A Practical Demonstration of Sensing and Ease of Implantation
Published on: February 28, 2012
"Pseudo" Faraday cage: a solution for telemetry link interaction between a left ventricular assist device and an
Sony Jacob1, Prasad K Cherian, Waqas S Ghumman
1Division of Cardiology/Electrophysiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA. jacobsony@yahoo.com
Abstract:
Patients implanted with left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) may have implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) implanted for sudden cardiac death prevention. This opens the possibility of device-device communication interactions and thus interferences. We present a case of such interaction that led to ICD communication failure following the activation of an LVAD. In this paper, we describe a practical solution to circumvent the communication interference and review the communication links of ICDs and possible mechanisms of ICD-LVAD interactions.
