Assertion: cardioverter defibrillator | /r/ObjectUse | used in patient
Facets:
value: more commonly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: In the 1960s Polish-born American physician Michel Mirowski came up with an idea for the development of an automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator, which could be used in patients affected by certain types of arrhythmia.
text: The wearable defibrillator is used with at-risk patients who aren’t able to have an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.
text: ICDs are similar to pacemakers in that they help monitor and regulate heart the heartbeat, but pacemakers typically are used to correct an excessively slow heart rate, whereas an implantable cardioverter defibrillator is more commonly used in patients who are susceptible to rapid life threatening arrhythmias.