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The development of the ICD was pioneered by Michael Mirowski’s team working at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore with the help of industrial collaborators Intec Systems of Pittsburgh. Mirowski teamed up with Mower and Staewen. Together they commenced their research in 1969 but it was 11 years before they treated their first patient. Similar developmental work was carried out by Schuder and colleagues at the University of Missouri. More than a decade of research went into the development of an implantable defibrillator that would automatic ...

A number of clinical trials have demonstrated the superiority of the ICD over AAD (antiarrhythmic drugs) in the prevention of death from malignant arrhythmias. The SCD-HeFT trial (published in 2005) showed a significant all-cause mortality benefit for patients with ICD. Heart Failure patients that were implanted with an ICD had an all-cause death risk 23% lower than placebo and an absolute decrease in mortality of 7.2 percentage points after five years in the overall population.1 Reporting in 1999, the Antiarrhythmics Versus Im ...

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