Ep. 172 Adventures in Defibrillation
Our guests are Thomas Wingert, a patient, Bogdan Enache, an electrophysiologist at Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace in Monaco, and Saurabh Jha, an Associate Professor of Radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania.
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Point/Counterpoint on Halting the Implantation of Subcutaneous ICD. Editorial by B. Enache and J. Mandrola in JACC Electrophysiology.
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Most interesting. Question: is removal of this device, and not using any device a consideration?
To expand: if I were Tom I think I’d be saying get this device out…
Thank you but stay tuned for part II coming up in a couple of weeks 🙂
Thanks. Can’t wait! This episode seemed to confirm my fears of modern medicine…it is hard to avoid being drawn into the rabbit hole of excessive testing and interventions….notwithstanding the awesome power to fix/cure when judiciously applied.