Treatment

Circulating a patient’s blood through a machine outside the body to remove toxins, waste products and excess salts from the blood whilst a patient’s own kidneys are unable to do so. Intensive care units commonly offer a gentler/slower version of standard outpatient-type dialysis that is better tolerated by critically ill patients. Maybe colloquially be referred … Read more

Adminsitration of a controlled electric shock to restore normal heart rhythm in cases of cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation. The apparatus used is a Defibrillator

Performed during ICD implantation, this is an assessment is to confirm appropriate sensing of ventricular fibrillation and to establish an adequate safety margin for defibrillation