Abstract
We thank Dr Sheridan for his interest and wish to acknowledge his contributions to the understanding of the effects of the electronic control device (ECD).1 There have, in fact, been published studies in which ECD probes were launched into the chests of volunteers. In 2 of these studies there was continuous echocardiographic monitoring to verify that there was no cardiac capture.2,3 The 63 volunteers received a total of 10 170 ECD pulses with no arrhythmias and no cardiac capture (in the 9450 with echo monitoring). Consistent with the study coauthored by Dr Sheridan, some of us have previously published that the risk of ventricular fibrillation (VF) induction is vanishingly small, if not …
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