2021
Defibrillation Safety Margin Testing in Patients With Congenital Heart Disease Results From the NCDR
Prutkin JM, Wang Y, Escudero CA, Stephenson EA, Minges KE, Curtis JP, Hsu JC. Defibrillation Safety Margin Testing in Patients With Congenital Heart Disease Results From the NCDR. JACC Clinical Electrophysiology 2021, 7: 1145-1154. PMID: 33933411, DOI: 10.1016/j.jacep.2021.02.019.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCongenital heart diseaseLowest successful energyHospital stayNational Cardiovascular Data Registry ICD RegistryImplantable cardioverter-defibrillator insertionVentricular septal defectTetralogy of FallotHeart disease resultHospital complicationsHospital deathHospital outcomesMultivariable adjustmentEbstein's anomalyICD RegistryICD recipientsSeptal defectCommon ventricleHeart diseaseRetrospective analysisLower oddsGreat vesselsICD proceduresDisease resultsSuccessful energyICD generator
2013
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