Quality of Life Issues in Patients With Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators

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2002 • 6,657 citations

Improved Survival with an Implanted Defibrillator in Patients with Coronary Disease at High Risk for Ventricular Arrhythmia

1996 • 4,078 citations

Canadian Implantable Defibrillator Study (CIDS)

2000 • 1,583 citations

Randomized Comparison of Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy With Implantable Defibrillators in Patients Resuscitated From Cardiac Arrest

2000 • 1,450 citations

Quality of Life in the Antiarrhythmics Versus Implantable Defibrillators Trial

2002 • 624 citations

Electrophysiologic Testing to Identify Patients with Coronary Artery Disease Who Are at Risk for Sudden Death

2000 • 555 citations

Electrical storm in patients with transvenous implantable cardioverter-defibrillators

1998 • 372 citations

Quality of life in the Canadian Implantable Defibrillator Study (CIDS)

2002 • 345 citations

Shock Reduction Using Antitachycardia Pacing for Spontaneous Rapid Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

2001 • 324 citations

Examining the psychosocial impact of implantable cardioverter defibrillators: A literature review

1999 • 297 citations

Personal and Public Safety Issues Related to Arrhythmias That May Affect Consciousness: Implications for Regulation and Physician Recommendations

1996 • 214 citations

Understanding implantable cardioverter defibrillator shocks and storms: Medical and psychosocial considerations for research and clinical care

2003 • 170 citations

Assessing the Psychosocial Impact of the ICD: A National Survey of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Health Care Providers

2000 • 149 citations

Quality‐of‐Life Six Months After CABG Surgery in Patients Randomized to ICD Versus No ICD Therapy: Findings from the CABG Patch Trial

1999 • 147 citations

Anxiety and Depression in Patients Receiving Implanted Cardioverter-Defibrillators: A Longitudinal Investigation

1997 • 146 citations

Resumption of Driving after Life-Threatening Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia

2001 • 87 citations

Patient acceptance of implantable cardioverter defibrillator devices: Changing attitudes

1994 • 76 citations

Help seeking in a support group for recipients of implantable cardioverter defibrillators and their support persons

2000 • 72 citations

Fear of exercise and health-related quality of life in patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator

2003 • 65 citations

Domains of nursing intervention after sudden cardiac arrest and automatic internal cardioverter defibrillator implantation

2000 • 65 citations

Living With an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator: A Review of the Current Literature Related to Psychosocial Factors

2001 • 62 citations

Recommendations for driving of patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators

1997 • 60 citations

Predictors of Quality of Life in Long-term Recipients of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators

2002 • 55 citations

The effect of psychosocial nursing intervention on the mood state of patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators and their caregivers.

1997 • 51 citations

Fear of exercise and health-related quality of life in patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator

2003 • 37 citations

Supportive Communication With Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Patients: Seven Principles to Facilitate Psychosocial Adjustment

2000 • 35 citations

Quality of Life and Driving in Recipients of the Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator

1996 • 35 citations

Patients with Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators: Transition to Home

2000 • 25 citations

Psychosocial Impact of the Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator: Nursing Implications

2002 • 22 citations

Patients with an ICD Can Safely Resume Work in Industrial Facilities Following Simple Screening for Electromagnetic Interference

2003 • 21 citations

Baseline factors predicting early resumption of driving after life-threatening arrhythmias in the Antiarrhythmics Versus Implantable Defibrillators (AVID) Trial

2001 • 20 citations

Help seeking in a support group for recipients of implantable cardioverter defibrillators and their support persons

2000 • 18 citations

The Natural History of Recovery Following Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Internal Cardioverter‐Defibrillator Implantation

2001 • 18 citations

Domains of nursing intervention after sudden cardiac arrest and automatic internal cardioverter defibrillator implantation

2000 • 17 citations

Mechanisms of syncope in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator recipients who receive device therapies

1998 • 17 citations

LIVING WITH AN IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR

2000 • 16 citations

DRIVING ISSUES RELATED TO ARRHYTHMIC SYNCOPE

1997 • 15 citations

Recurrent cardiac events in survivors of ventricular fibrillation or tachycardia. Implications for driving restrictions

1994 • 14 citations

Algorithms for better arrhythmia discrimination in implantable cardioverter defibrillators

2001 • 3 citations

Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles and Momentous Discoveries

1994 • 2 citations

Recent Advances In Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Systems

2002 • 1 citations