Medtronic Shock-Less Study

Shocks delivered to patients by defibrillators, while life-saving, can create anxiety, pain
and decrease quality of life. Previous studies have shown that device programming and
features can safely reduce the number of shocks patients receive. This study will explore
the extent to which physicians use these programming and features. It will determine
whether repeat and frequent awareness to how they program their own subjects and the
programming trends of all enrolled subjects will change their programming patterns. This
will be accomplished by understanding physicians' device programming behaviors and providing
reports as a tool to help physicians manage their subjects and provide shock reduction
programming recommended by previous publications.