Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Reduction of inappropriate ICD therapies in patients with primary prevention of sudden cardiac death: DECREASE study.
A significant number of patients with an implantable cardioverter/defibrillator (ICD) for primary prevention receive inappropriate shocks. Previous studies have reported a reduction of inappropriate therapies with simple modifications of ICD detection settings, however, inclusion criteria and settings varied markedly between studies. Our aim was to investigate the effect of raising the ICD detection zone in the entire primary prevention ICD population. ⋯ http://clinicaltrials.gov ; ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT01217528.