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When do you perform routine defibrillation testing at the time of subcutaneous ICD implantation?

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Cardiology · Baylor College of Medicine/ Texas Children's Hospital

Perhaps the best way of answering this question may be broadly approaching why do we perform defibrillation threshold (DFT) testing and what factors affect an implanter's success (for both subcutaneous and transvenous ICD). To answer the first question, we hope that DFT will simulate real-life funct...

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