Duration of hospital admission, need of on-demand analgesia and other peri-procedural and short-term outcomes in sub-cutaneous vs. transvenous implantable cardioverter-defibrillators.

Background: Post-procedural recovery following sub-cutaneous ICD (S-ICD) implantation is feared to be more painful and to require more prolonged hospital admission. The purpose of this study was to compare peri-procedural and short clinical outcomes of the S-ICD vs. the Transvenous ICD (TV-ICD).