Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Therapy in Heart Failure

Abstract

The population of patients with heart failure continues to grow, which introduced significant challenges in clinical practice related to the management of cardiac arrhythmia and advanced heart failure syndromes. Device therapy has increasingly become essential in the management of life-threatening arrhythmia and clinical heart failure in this population. This review will discuss the use of cardiac implantable electronic devices in heart failure with primary focus on sudden cardiac death prevention and cardiac resynchronization, including published evidence and evolving technologies.

Keywords: cardiac resynchronization therapy; defibrillators; heart failure; hemodynamics; ventricular fibrillation.