Motor vehicle accidents in patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
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Objectives This study was designed to examine driving safety in patients at risk for sudden death after implantation of a cardioverter-defibrillator.Background Cardioverter-defibrillators are frequently implanted in patients at high risk for sudden death. Despite concern about the safety of driving in these patients, little is known about their actual motor vehicle accident rates.Methods Surveys were sent to all 742 physicians in the United States involved in cardioverter-defibrillator implantation and follow-up. Physicians were questioned about numbers of patients followed up, numbers of fatal and nonfatal accidents, physician recommendations to patients about driving and knowledge of state driving laws.Results Surveys were returned by 452 physicians (61%). A total of 30 motor vehicle accidents related to shocks from implantable defibrillators were reported by 25 physicians over a 12-year period from 1980 to 1992. Of these, nine were fatal accidents involving eight patients with a defibrillator and one passenger in a car driven by a patient. No bystanders were fatally injured. There were 21 nonfatal accidents involving 15 patients, 3 passengers and 3 bystanders. The estimated fatality rate for patients with a defibrillator, 7.5/100,000 patient-years, is significantly lower than that for the general population (18.4/100,000 patient-years, p < 0.05). The estimated injury rate, 17.6/100,000 patient-years, is also significantly lower than that for the general public (2,224/100,000 patient-years, p < 0.05). Only 10.5% (30 of 286) of all defibrillator discharges during driving resulted in accidents. Regarding physician recommendations, most physicians (58.1%) ask their patients to wait a mean (+/- SD) of 7.3 +/- 3.4 months after implantation or a shock before driving again.Conclusions The motor vehicle accident rate caused by discharge from an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator is low. Although restricting driving for a short period of time after implantation may be appropriate, excessive restrictions or a total ban on driving appears to be unwarranted.
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In 1 early survey of ICD-implanting physicians, the estimated motor vehicle fatality rate for patients with a defibrillator, 7.5/100,000 patient-years, was significantly lower than that for the general population (18.4/100,000 patient-years).
“In 1 early survey of ICDimplanting physicians, 86 the estimated motor vehicle fatality rate for patients with a defibrillator, 7.5/100 000 patient-years, was significantly lower than that for the general population (18.4/100 000 patient-years).”
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- Authors
- Curtis, A. B., Conti, J. B., Tucker, K. J., Kubilis, P. S., Reilly, R. E., & Woodard, D. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Florida (US)
- University of Florida Health (US)
- Corresponding author
- Curtis, Anne B.
- Venue
- Journal of the American College of Cardiology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1995-07
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 180-184
- ISSN
- 0735-1097 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2064845265
- Cited by
- 77
- References
- 16
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- FWCI
- 5.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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- Journal of the American College of Cardiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Emergency Medicine › Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality › Traffic and Road Safety
- Keywords
- implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, motor vehicle accidents, driving safety, sudden cardiac death, defibrillator shocks, physician recommendations, driving restrictions, injury rates
- MeSH terms
- Accidents, Traffic, Automobile Driving, Data Collection, Humans, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Physicians, United States, Defibrillators, Implantable
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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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