Canadian Registry of ICD Implant Testing Procedures

Guidant

Status: Completed

Conditions: Ventricular Fibrillation

Treatments: Device: GUIDANT ICD SYSTEM

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT00848341

CREDIT

Details and patient eligibility

About

To document practices in Canadian ICD implant centres around defibrillation therapy efficacy testing.

Full description

To document types of defibrillation testing (DFT) procedures are in current use in Canada, rates of use an dno use of DFT testing, medical indications for non use of DFT testing, rate of successful testing of first lead configuration, rates and types of complications from DFT testing, costs of implant procedures and the costs associated with DFT testing, short term outcomes of patients with different types of implant procedures.

Enrollment: 261 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Receiving a Guidant ICD system, including replacements

Exclusion criteria

• New epicardial lead(s) implanted, included in another cardiovascular trial (may be in the ELECTION Study)

Trial design

261 participants in 1 patient group

Control

Treatment:

Device: GUIDANT ICD SYSTEM