{"id":3600,"date":"2010-09-28T15:10:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T19:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:47","slug":"icd-software-upgrade-can-reduce-inappropriate-shocks-from-faulty-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/09\/28\/icd-software-upgrade-can-reduce-inappropriate-shocks-from-faulty-leads\/","title":{"rendered":"ICD Software Upgrade Can Reduce Inappropriate Shocks from Faulty Leads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A software upgrade for ICDs can help reduce inappropriate shocks, according to<a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.962407v1\"> a study published online in <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.962407v1\">Circulation<\/a><\/em>. Following reports of high failure rates of Sprint Fidelis defibrillation leads, a software program known as a lead-integrity alert (LIA) was\u00a0developed for download into previously implanted ICDs.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Swerdlow and colleagues compared 213 ICD patients who received the LIA with 213 patients who did not. More than one inappropriate shock occurred in 38% of LIA recipients versus 70% of patients without the LIA software.\u00a0\u201cHundreds of patients have been saved from unnecessary shocks by software that is safe and can be painlessly downloaded in one minute during a standard defibrillator check,\u201d said Swerdlow, in an AHA press release.<\/p>\n<p>Swerdlow noted that one year after the release of the software upgrade, &#8220;30% of patients undergoing remote monitoring had not had the software downloaded.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A software upgrade for ICDs can help reduce inappropriate shocks, according to a study published online in Circulation. Following reports of high failure rates of Sprint Fidelis defibrillation leads, a software program known as a lead-integrity alert (LIA) was\u00a0developed for download into previously implanted ICDs. Charles Swerdlow and colleagues compared 213 ICD patients who received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[448,449,450],"class_list":["post-3600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrophysiology","tag-icds","tag-inappropriate-shocks","tag-sprint-fidelis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}