Sensitivity and specificity of the subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator pre-implant screening tool
Sensitivity and specificity of the subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator pre-implant screening tool
Background
The sensitivity and specificity of the subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator (S-ICD) pre-implant screening tool required clinical evaluation.
Methods
Bipolar vectors were derived from electrodes positioned at locations similar to those employed for S-ICD sensing and pre-implant screening electrodes, and recordings collected through 80-electrode PRIME®-ECGs, in six different postures, from 40 subjects (10 healthy controls, and 30 patients with complex congenital heart disease (CCHD); 10 with Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), 10 with single ventricle physiology (SVP), and 10 with transposition of great arteries (TGA)). The resulting vectors were analysed using the S-ICD pre-implant screening tool (Boston Scientific) and processed through the sensing algorithm of S-ICD (Boston Scientific). The data were then evaluated using 2 × 2 contingency tables. Fisher exact and McNemar tests were used for a comparison of the different categories of CCHD, and p < 0.05 vs. controls considered to be statistically significant.
Results
57% of patients were male, mean age of 36.3 years. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) of the S-ICD screening tool were 95%, 79%, 59% and 98%, respectively, for controls, and 84%, 79%, 76% and 86%, respectively, in patients with CCHD (p = 0.0001).
Conclusion
The S-ICD screening tool was comparatively more sensitive in normal controls but less specific in both CCHD patients and controls; a possible explanation for the reported high incidence of inappropriate S-ICD shocks. Thus, we propose a pre-implant screening device using the S-ICD sensing algorithm to minimise false exclusion and selection, and hence minimise potentially inappropriate shocks.
sudden cardiac death, congenital heart disease, subcutaneous implantable cardioverter, sensing algorithm
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Zeb, Mehmood
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Curzen, Nick
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Allavatam, Venugopal
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Wilson, David
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Yue, Arthur
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Roberts, Paul
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Morgan, John
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15 September 2015
Zeb, Mehmood
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Curzen, Nick
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Allavatam, Venugopal
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Wilson, David
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Yue, Arthur
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Roberts, Paul
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Morgan, John
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Zeb, Mehmood, Curzen, Nick, Allavatam, Venugopal, Wilson, David, Yue, Arthur, Roberts, Paul and Morgan, John
(2015)
Sensitivity and specificity of the subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator pre-implant screening tool.
International Journal of Cardiology, 195, .
(doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.05.082).
(PMID:26048376)
Abstract
Background
The sensitivity and specificity of the subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator (S-ICD) pre-implant screening tool required clinical evaluation.
Methods
Bipolar vectors were derived from electrodes positioned at locations similar to those employed for S-ICD sensing and pre-implant screening electrodes, and recordings collected through 80-electrode PRIME®-ECGs, in six different postures, from 40 subjects (10 healthy controls, and 30 patients with complex congenital heart disease (CCHD); 10 with Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), 10 with single ventricle physiology (SVP), and 10 with transposition of great arteries (TGA)). The resulting vectors were analysed using the S-ICD pre-implant screening tool (Boston Scientific) and processed through the sensing algorithm of S-ICD (Boston Scientific). The data were then evaluated using 2 × 2 contingency tables. Fisher exact and McNemar tests were used for a comparison of the different categories of CCHD, and p < 0.05 vs. controls considered to be statistically significant.
Results
57% of patients were male, mean age of 36.3 years. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) of the S-ICD screening tool were 95%, 79%, 59% and 98%, respectively, for controls, and 84%, 79%, 76% and 86%, respectively, in patients with CCHD (p = 0.0001).
Conclusion
The S-ICD screening tool was comparatively more sensitive in normal controls but less specific in both CCHD patients and controls; a possible explanation for the reported high incidence of inappropriate S-ICD shocks. Thus, we propose a pre-implant screening device using the S-ICD sensing algorithm to minimise false exclusion and selection, and hence minimise potentially inappropriate shocks.
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Accepted/In Press date: 14 May 2015
Published date: 15 September 2015
Keywords:
sudden cardiac death, congenital heart disease, subcutaneous implantable cardioverter, sensing algorithm
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/378071
ISSN: 0167-5273
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