Managing patients with ICD shocks and programming tachycardia therapies during acute heart failure syndromes

Jason Bradfield; Roderick Tung; Noel G Boyle; Kalyanam Shivkumar

doi:10.1007/s10741-011-9241-7

Managing patients with ICD shocks and programming tachycardia therapies during acute heart failure syndromes

Heart Fail Rev. 2011 Sep;16(5):449-56. doi: 10.1007/s10741-011-9241-7.

Authors

Jason Bradfield¹, Roderick Tung, Noel G Boyle, Kalyanam Shivkumar

Affiliation

¹ UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, A2-237 CHS, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1679, USA. JBradfield@mednet.ucla.edu

Abstract

We review the pharmacologic, interventional and device programming treatment options for patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators who present with acute heart failure and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator shocks.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Acute Disease
Cardiovascular Agents / therapeutic use
Catheter Ablation
Clinical Trials as Topic
Defibrillators, Implantable / adverse effects*
Defibrillators, Implantable / standards
Electric Countershock / adverse effects*
Electric Countershock / instrumentation*
Electric Countershock / methods
Electrocardiography
Equipment Failure Analysis
Heart Failure / complications
Heart Failure / physiopathology
Heart Failure / therapy*
Humans
Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumping
Patient Selection
Severity of Illness Index
Sympathetic Nervous System / drug effects
Sympathetic Nervous System / physiopathology
Sympathetic Nervous System / surgery
Tachycardia, Ventricular / complications
Tachycardia, Ventricular / diagnosis
Tachycardia, Ventricular / physiopathology
Tachycardia, Ventricular / therapy*

Substances

Cardiovascular Agents