High Incidence of Inappropriate Alarms in Patients with Wearable Cardioverter-Defibrillators: Findings from the Swiss WCD Registry

High Incidence of Inappropriate Alarms in Patients with Wearable Cardioverter-Defibrillators: Findings from the Swiss WCD Registry

Background: The wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) uses surface electrodes to detect arrhythmia before initiating a treatment sequence. However, it is also prone to inappropriate detection due to artefacts. Objective: The aim of this study is to assess the alarm burden in patients and its imp...

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Main Authors: Boldizsar Kovacs, Haran Burri, Andres Buehler, Sven Reek, Christian Sticherling, Beat Schaer, Andre Linka, Peter Ammann, Andreas S. Müller, Omer Dzemali, Richard Kobza, Matthias Schindler, Laurent Haegeli, Kurt Mayer, Urs Eriksson, Claudia Herrera-Siklody, Tobias Reichlin, Jan Steffel, Ardan M. Saguner, Firat Duru
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-08-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Medicine
Subjects:
wearable cardioverter-defibrillator
alarm
inappropriate therapy
obesity
outcome
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/10/17/3811

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