Dr. Jamil Bashir’s (Cardiac Surgery) pioneering work with subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillators (S-ICD) was featured in the Vancouver Sun. Implanted defibrillators monitor a patient’s heart and then administers an electric shock to reset a racing or irregular heartbeat. Until recently, all such devices had to be implanted along with wires threaded through veins near the heart. Now there’s the option at St. Paul’s of having a defibrillator placed just under the skin on the side of the chest without surgery on blood vessels. This new device is a paradigm shift that eliminates having to place a wire in the blood vessels, reducing the potential for blood vessel injury and system infection, as well as preserving the patient’s vein access for the future.
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posted : 2015-September-7