Usefulness of the MADIT-ICD Benefit Score in a S-ICD Patient Cohort

Abstract excerpt

<h4>Background: </h4> The subcutaneous ICD (S-ICD) is used in an increasing number of patients for primary and secondary prevention of sudden cardiac death. Decision-making in primary prevention is not always trivial and many clinical scenarios are not reflected in current ICD guidelines. To help evaluating the patient’s individual risk, a new score trying to predict the benefit of an ICD implantation for primary...

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• Death, Sudden, Cardiac
• Decision Support Techniques
• Defibrillators, Implantable
• Electric Countershock
• Practice Guidelines as Topic
• Primary Prevention
• Stroke Volume
• Ventricular Function, Left

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Literature Corpus work

b2a7cf4a-8e6a-5cc1-aadd-f61f524d6053

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-593919/v1