Canadian Registry of ICD Implant Testing Procedures
Completed
- Conditions
- Ventricular Fibrillation
- Interventions
- Device: GUIDANT ICD SYSTEM
- Registration Number
- NCT00848341
- Lead Sponsor
- Guidant Corporation
- Brief Summary
To document practices in Canadian ICD implant centres around defibrillation therapy efficacy testing.
- Detailed 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.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 261
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)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Control GUIDANT ICD SYSTEM -
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method to systematically collect and quanitfy characteristics of ICD implant procedures in Canadian Hospitals 3 years
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method