Best hospitals and doctors for AICD in Chennai - Madras, India

An automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD) is a device implantable inside the body, able to perform cardioversion, defibrillation, and pacing of the heart.The device is therefore capable of correcting most life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias. This is the first-line treatment and prophylactic therapy for patients at risk for sudden cardiac death due to ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia. The way of implantation is similar to implantation of pacemaker.

May include:

• Arrhythmia.
• Ventricular tachycardia.
• Ventricular fibrillation.
• Cardiomyopathy.
• Heart failure
• Congenital heart defects.