Patient, Physician, and Procedural Factors Influencing the Use of Defibrillation Testing during Initial Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Insertion: Findings from the NCDR®
RUSSO AM, WANG Y, AL‐KHATIB S, CURTIS JP, LAMPERT R. Patient, Physician, and Procedural Factors Influencing the Use of Defibrillation Testing during Initial Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Insertion: Findings from the NCDR®. Pacing And Clinical Electrophysiology 2013, 36: 1522-1531. PMID: 23981009, DOI: 10.1111/pace.12248.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHospital adverse eventsDFT testingAdverse eventsImplantable cardioverter-defibrillator insertionLeft ventricular ejection fractionCardiac resynchronization therapy devicesPrimary prevention indicationVentricular ejection fractionResynchronization therapy devicesProspective randomized dataImplantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) technologyDefibrillation threshold testingPatterns of practiceMore comorbiditiesPrevention indicationDefibrillator insertionEjection fractionHeart failureAtrial arrhythmiasDefibrillation testingIndependent associationProcedural characteristicsTeaching hospitalDefibrillator technologyImplant procedure