Additional coils mitigate elevated defibrillation threshold in right-sided implantable cardioverter defibrillator generator placement: a simulation study.

Shuang Qian Sofia Monaci Caroline Mendonca-Costa Fernando O Campos Philip Gemmell Hassan A Zaidi Ronak Rajani John Whitaker Christopher Aldo Rinaldi Martin J Bishop

Published in: Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology (2023)

Right-sided, compared to left-sided, can positioning results in a 50% increase in DFT. For right-sided cans, apical shock coil positioning produces a lower DFT than septal positions. Elevated right-sided can DFTs may be mitigated by utilizing additional coils in SVC and CS.

Keyphrases

density functional theory
molecular docking
cardiac arrest
heart failure