Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death: Focus on the Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator
The implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is the most effective therapy to prevent sudden cardiac death (SCD) in high-risk patients. To overcome infections and failure of transvenous leads, the most frightening complications of conventional ICDs, a completely subcutaneous ICD (S-ICD) has been developed and is currently adopted in routine clinical practice.