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

Kovacs, B; Buehler, A; Sticherling, C; Schaer, B; Linka, A; Ammann, P; Muller, AS; Kobza, R; Schindler, M; Haegeli, L; Mayer, K; Eriksson, U; Herrera-Siklody, C; Reichlin, T; Steffel, J; Saguner, AM; Duru, F; Burri, H; Reek, S; Dzemali, O

Kovacs, B (corresponding author), Univ Heart Ctr Zurich, Dept Cardiol, Ramistr 100, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland.

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE, 2021; 10 (17):

Abstract

Background: The wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) uses surface electrodes to detect arrhythmia before initiating a treatment sequence. However......

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