Subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillators for the prevention of sudden cardiac death: five-year single-center experience

‐year single ‐center experience with S ‐ICD 447 The S ‐ICD implantation procedure was per‐ formed under general anesthesia. In the first 3 cases, the S ‐ICD pocket was subcutaneous, an in the remaining cases, intermuscular. In 21 pa‐ tients, the defibrillation test was performed, and in 4 patients, it was abandoned due to contrain‐ dications (see Supplementary material, Table S1). Only descriptive statistical methods were used. Due to observational nature of the study, no additional patient consent was required.