Meanings
nouncardioverter (plural cardioverters)
plural cardioverters
- A machine that performs cardioversion (specifically, electrocardioversion), in either hospital equipment form or implantable form.
According to the US Food and Drug Administration, 398,740 of St. Jude Medical’s implantable cardioverter defibrillators, known as ICDs, and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators, known as CRT-Ds, are affected with premature battery depletion.
2016 October 11, Hailey Middlebrook, “After 2 deaths, patients warned about heart defibrillators’ failed batteries”, in CNN
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