Medmastery: Qualifying for an ICD
The team at Medmastery are providing LITFL readers with a series of FOAMed courses from across their website.
For the next few weeks, we’ll be posting videos from the ICD Essentials course. Which conditions qualify a patient for an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)? What is the difference between primary and secondary prevention?
Further Reading
- What is an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)?
- What is ATP (anti-tachycardia pacing)?
- Defibrillation for VF and VT when ATP fails
- Course: ICD Essentials
“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.”
Kristian Webb.
Board-certified devices specialist from London. Author and cardiology education enthusiast.
