| Cheney Leaves Hospital After Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator is Replaced (CardiovascularWeb News) SUNDAY, July 29, 2007 US Vice President Dick Cheney, 66, had surgery Saturday to replace parts of a implantable cardioverter- defibrillator (ICD) implanted back in June 30, 2001. The device is a sealed unit that includes a battery and serves both as a pacemaker and a defibrillator to shock and reset the heart back into normal heart rhythm if necessary. Cheney arrived the George Washington University Hospital Saturday morning for the procedure. During an annual physical checkup in June, doctors found that the battery level in the Vice President’s defibrillator was low and replacement is recommended. Vice President Cheney has had four heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery, two angioplasties and an implantation of a defibrillator. The research and development on implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) date back to 1969 at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. After more than a decade of development, the first device was implanted in a patient in 1980 at the John Hopkins Hospital. |
July 29, 2007
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