Spanish Implantable Cardioverter-defibrillator Registry. 14th Official Report of the Spanish Society of Cardiology Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias Section (2017)

Abstract

Introduction and objectivesThe Spanish Automatic Defibrillator Registry has provided activity data since 2002. MethodsThe data in this registry are submitted by implantation centers that voluntarily complete a data collection sheet. ResultsDuring 2017, a total of 6273 implant sheets were received, compared with 6429 reported by Eucomed (European Confederation of Medical Suppliers Associations). Therefore, the registry contains data on 97.6% of the devices implanted in Spain. Compliance ranged from 99.7% for the field “name of the implanting hospital” to 46.1% for the variable “New York Heart Association functional class”. A total of 181 hospitals reported data to the registry, representing an increase compared with the number of participating hospitals in 2016 (177) and in previous years (169 in 2015, 162 in 2014, 154 in 2013, and 153 in 2012). ConclusionsThe number of implants per million inhabitants in Spain increased for several years but decreased in 2017. As in previous years, the total number of implants in Spain is still much lower than the European Union average, and the gap continues to widen. There are still substantial differences between autonomous communities.