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Antitachycardia pacing
Antitachycardia pacing (ATP) is a painless ICD therapy that terminates ventricular tachycardia with short trains of paced beats, usually about 8 pulses, instead of a high-voltage shock.
Artificial Cardiac Pacing
Artificial cardiac pacing is the use of an implanted or external pacemaker to deliver electrical stimuli that maintain an effective heart rhythm in bradycardia or heart block.
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Devices
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices, or biventricular pacemakers (CRT-P) and defibrillators (CRT-D), pace both ventricles together to treat heart failure with wide QRS; proven to reduce mortality and hospitalization in major trials.
Counterpulsation
Counterpulsation is a form of mechanical circulatory support that inflates a balloon or leg cuffs during diastole to raise coronary perfusion and reduce left ventricular work.
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation is the surgical placement of a device that detects ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation and terminates them with pacing or shocks, preventing sudden cardiac death.
Inappropriate implantable cardioverter defibrillator shock
Inappropriate ICD shock: a high-voltage implantable defibrillator discharge for a non-ventricular rhythm, usually supraventricular tachycardia or oversensing; incidence, mortality evidence, programming, and remote monitoring prevention.
Intra-aortic balloon pump
Intra-aortic balloon pumping (IABP), counterpulsation via a balloon in the descending aorta, supports the failing heart; first used clinically in 1967, now Class III for routine use in cardiogenic shock after IABP-SHOCK II.
Lead implantation (cardiology)
Lead implantation is the cardiology procedure of placing insulated electrode wires into the heart chambers and connecting them to a pacemaker, ICD, or CRT pulse generator.
LVAD therapy
LVAD therapy is a treatment for advanced heart failure in which an implanted mechanical pump moves blood from the weakened left ventricle into the aorta, used as a bridge to transplant or lifelong support.
Skeletal Muscle Ventricle
Skeletal Muscle Ventricle (SMV), an autologous skeletal-muscle pumping chamber, usually latissimus dorsi, electrically conditioned and connected to assist a failing heart; experimental alternative to mechanical ventricular assist devices.