title: The automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator in the treatment of severe tachyarrhythmias.
abstract: The automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator constitutes a new therapeutic alternative in malignant ventricular tachyarrhythmias unresponsive to drug therapy. In Czechoslovakia, the device was first implanted to a 29-year-old patient on 31 October, 1984. The article, apart from presenting his case report and a description of the therapeutic procedure, includes the electrocardiograms attesting to the device's effective performance as registered by continuous Holter monitoring.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004554:Electric Countershock / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005080:Exercise Test; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006339:Heart Rate; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000628:therapy*