Effect of Programmed Number of Intervals to Detect Ventricular Fibrillation on Implantable Cardioverter‐Defibrillator Aborted and Unnecessary Shocks

Abstract

In patients with self-terminating device-detected VF, increasing the number of intervals to detect VF from 12/16 to 18/24 results in a clinically significant decrease in ICD detections and fewer unnecessary shocks with minimal incremental delay in VF detection.