ICD: A Type of Pacemaker - a podcast by Osceola Regional Medical Center

ICD is a fancy kind of a pacemaker in other words it delegates a shock at a various set energy and if your heart what it does is an insurance policy really. The placement of an ICD is just similar to a pacemaker; the difference only being it's slightly bigger in size but it detects your heartbeat for the rest of your life. And if your heart beat were to go dangerously fast your cardiologist or electro physiologist would program it appropriately on an individual basis and it will shock you and save your life. Time is muscle and if you did have a cardiac arrest with the appropriate ICD in place at home it would shock you and save your life. You would probably need that once in your life but that would be the time that it works the most.

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