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Implantation of the automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator
L Watkins1, T Guarnieri, L S Griffith
1Department of Surgery and Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21205.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|March 1, 1988
Abstract:
Since February 1980 the automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator has been implanted in over 1,500 patients. Sudden death rates have been reduced to 2%-4% annually. This report reviews the implantation techniques, their indications, and our clinical experience in 200 patients.