Comments on: Too Much Information About AICD Function

By: leeM

leeM — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:58:51 +0000

If two magnets dont work just wheel the patient into the nearest MRI – but dont get too near too avoid patient sticking to MRI… :-}

By: ERP

ERP — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:58:32 +0000

I bet the AICD saved his old lady who he surely would have crushed.

By: girlvet

girlvet — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:16:42 +0000

“mounted”? That is not a pretty picture.

By: MikeMD

MikeMD — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:53:50 +0000

I was thinking just build an arc reactor. Duh.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 06:12:04 +0000

So no electromagnet hooked up to a car battery then?

By: cardioNP

cardioNP — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:05:00 +0000

I suspect that he may have met his rate threshold for shock delivery and that he may not have had an actual VT/VF event given the scenario. Hope he follows up with his EP doc for interrogation before he re-enters the rodeo.
Most ICDs (even single chamber ICDs) have the ability to do VVI pacing. General default setting is at 40 bpm.

By: WhiteCoat

WhiteCoat — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:46:00 +0000

If your magnet doesn’t work on an obese patient, get a second magnet, stick them together and then put them on the patient’s chest. The combined magnetic field is usually sufficient to deactivate the AICD in even morbidly obese patients.
If the defibrillator has a pacing function (not all of them do), deactivating the AICD with a magnet has no effect on the pacing function, so you don’t need to do anything to keep the pacer working.