How to Use cardioverter in a Sentence

cardioverter

noun
  • The Lown device, called a cardioverter, used direct current and precise timing to avoid the danger points.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Eriksen was fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator device and returned to play last year.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2023
  • ICDs are implantable cardioverter defibrillators, which are a sister device used to boost hearts at risk.
    — Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2022
  • As for his health, Fletcher recently had a cardioverter-defibrillator implanted in his heart.
    — Lauren Saria, azcentral, 3 July 2019
  • The decision was then made to fit the 29-year-old with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD).
    — Ben Church, CNN, 18 June 2021
  • And his invention of the direct-current defibrillator, also known as the cardioverter, in 1962 has saved countless lives.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2021
  • An implantable cardioverter defibrillator also can deliver major electric shocks for sudden cardiac arrest.
    — Joe Carlson, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • Some were home just a few days, while one, a cardiologist, was placing an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator into a patient when his wife, who was in the maternity ward in the same building, went into labor.
    — Charles Feng, STAT, 26 Jan. 2023
  • His implantable cardioverter defibrillator, designed to detect and treat ventricular tachycardia, was checked.
    — David Becker, Philly.com, 14 July 2017
  • Eriksen was fitted with an implantable device to monitor his heart rhythm — an ICD, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Skylar has a heart condition called polymorphic arrhythmia and has an implantable cardioverter defibrillator that ended her scientific scuba-diving career.
    — Skylar Bayer, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Now Eriksen has resumed his professional playing career after being fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator.
    — Rob Harris, ajc, 26 Feb. 2022
  • According to the Mayo Clinic, an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator is a device that is battery powered and is placed in the chest to monitor heart rhythm and detect irregular heartbeats.
    — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 17 June 2021
  • That a quirky, little exhibit of world-class paintings made its way into a tiny art gallery in Aurora, Colorado, has everything to do with the automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 16 Apr. 2017
  • The Baltimore doctors persisted and tested their implantable cardioverter defibrillator, or ICD, in dogs.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 6 May 2022
  • An implantable cardioverter defibrillator is another option, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.
    — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Doctors implanted a subcutaneous cardioverter defibrillator, an electronic device to constantly monitor her heart rhythm.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The Danish federation said Thursday that doctors have determined Eriksen needed to have an implantable cardioverter defibrillator.
    — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 18 June 2021
  • She was given an implantable cardioverter defibrillator after experiencing cardiac arrest and in 2021, she was placed on ECMO.
    — Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE.com, 11 Mar. 2022

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