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Perfect is the Enemy of Good Enough: Improving CIED Quality

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The speaker discusses the importance of quality control and improvement in cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs). They emphasize the need for active systems to ensure the reliability and safety of these devices. The speaker mentions that there have been instances of device failure in the past and highlights the role of remote monitoring in detecting patterns and clusters of failures. They also mention the importance of root cause analysis in understanding why failures occur and improving future devices. The speaker discusses the impact of the Sprint Fidelis lead advisory in raising the bar for lead performance standards and how the industry has responded with innovative and more reliable devices. Overall, the speaker concludes that while failure is inevitable, improvements in manufacturing processes and engineering have led to increasingly marginal failure rates, making these devices more reliable over time.

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Andrew D. Krahn, MD, FHRS, Division of Cardiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Keywords

quality control

CIEDs

device failure

remote monitoring

innovative devices

marginal failure rates