ICD: Defibrillation

The team at Medmastery are providing LITFL readers with a series of FOAMed courses from across their website.

Exploring the ICD Essentials course, today’s video looks at how defibrillation treats ventricular fibrillation, and ventricular tachycardia, where ATP has been unsuccessful

“I’m an International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners (IBHRE) certified specialist in cardiac pacemakers and ICDs, and the chief cardiac physiologist in a pacemaker clinic that carries out over 4,000 pacemaker checks per year. My passion is education, and I created THE PAD website, a popular resource for cardiology information, and wrote the book Pacemakers Made Easy.”