Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICD) Surgery in Turkey
An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is a small battery-powered device placed in your chest to monitor your heart rhythm and detect irregular heartbeats. An ICD can deliver electric shocks via one or more wires connected to your heart to fix an abnormal heart rhythm.
The ICD responds to irregular life-threatening heart rhythms from the lower chambers of the heart with pacing that corrects a fast rhythm and promotes a normal heartbeat, or a shock (defibrillation) that resets the heart rhythm to prevent sudden cardiac arrest. An ICD also records and stores information about your heart rhythm and therapies delivered by the ICD for your doctor to review.
Once blood pressure, pulse, and breathing are stable and patients are alert, they will be taken to their hospital room or discharged home. Patients are reassured that the defibrillator will not harm others even if it should fire while the patient is touching someone else.
