High Incidence of Inappropriate Alarms in Patients with Wearable Cardioverter-Defibrillators: Findings from the Swiss WCD Registry.
Boldizsar KovacsHaran BurriAndres BuehlerSven ReekChristian SticherlingBeat SchaerAndre LinkaPeter AmmannAndreas S MüllerOmer DzemaliRichard KobzaMatthias SchindlerLaurent HaegeliKurt MayerUrs ErikssonC Herrera SiklodyTobias ReichlinJan SteffelArdan M SagunerFirat DuruPublished in: Journal of clinical medicine (2021)
In patients using WCDs, alarms emitted by the device and impending inappropriate shocks were frequent and most commonly caused by artefacts. A high alarm burden was associated with obesity but did not lead to a decreased adherence.