96 Cost effectiveness of a risk-stratified approach to cardiac resynchronisation therapy defibrillators at the time of generator change

Background: Responders to cardiac resynchronisation therapy whose device has a defibrillator component and who do not receive a therapy in the lifetime of the first generator have a very low incidence of appropriate therapy after box change.  We investigated the cost implications of using a risk stratification tool at the time of generator change resulting in these patients being reimplanted with a resynchronisation pacemaker.
Source: Europace - Category: Cardiology Source Type: research