automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator

automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
(AICD), implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) an implantable device that detects sustained ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation and terminates it by a shock or shocks delivered directly to the myocardium.

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