Excessive Charge Time Delaying Ventricular Tachycardia Therapy

ICD Hardware Malfunction. A 70‐year‐old man with a single‐chamber implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) placed for ventricular tachycardia presented with syncope. He was found to have ventricular flutter/fibrillation with capacitor charge time in excess of 1 minute before defibrillation. The...

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Published inJournal of cardiovascular electrophysiology Vol. 12; no. 9; pp. 1078 - 1079
Main Authors PANCHAL, VIPUL R., GROH, WILLIAM J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Science Inc 01.09.2001
Subjects
Aged
capacitor charge times
Defibrillators, Implantable
Electrocardiography
Equipment Failure
Humans
implantable cardioverter defibrillator malfunction
Male
syncope
Syncope - etiology
Tachycardia, Ventricular - therapy
Ventricular Fibrillation - prevention & control
ventricular tachycardia
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Summary:ICD Hardware Malfunction. A 70‐year‐old man with a single‐chamber implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) placed for ventricular tachycardia presented with syncope. He was found to have ventricular flutter/fibrillation with capacitor charge time in excess of 1 minute before defibrillation. The excessive charge time was secondary to ICD capacitor malfunction. The generator was explanted and replaced, and the patient recovered uneventfully.
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ISSN:1045-3873
1540-8167
DOI:10.1046/j.1540-8167.2001.01078.x