cardioverter

noun

car·dio·ver·ter ˈkär-dē-ō-ˌvər-tər

: a medical device for the administration of an electric shock in cardioversion

The cardioverter, which is fully automatic, weighs but 90 g and is inserted like a permanent pacemaker.—

John Maurice

The silver-colored, pager-size device, called an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, can speed up a slow heart and slow a racing heartbeat.—

Susan Page

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There are implantable cardioverter defibrillators that can shock a heart back to normal within eight to 10 seconds. —

Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 14 Aug. 2024 Bouwmeester had an implantable cardioverter defibrillator procedure to restore his heart's normal rhythm. —

Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2023 Fainting was the most common event, and one athlete received a shock with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, or ICD. —

Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023 Some were home just a few days, while one, a cardiologist, was placing an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator into a patient when his wife, who was in the maternity ward in the same building, went into labor. —

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