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?

“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.”