植入性器械家庭监测系统对早期心律失常事件管理.ppt

* * * It is important to point out that in the studies with longer follow up times (SCD-HeFT) the incidence of shocks will be higher as more patients over time will receive appropriate and inappropriate shock therapy. The 1/3 have a shock by 4 years and 16-18% of patients receiving an inappropriate shock comes from SCD-HeFT . If you get asked why we didn’t display the data at an annualized rate, it is because the annual rate of shocks is not equal. The incidence of shocks during the first year is much higher than subsequent year (12-14%) and if shock incidence were displayed in an annualized