How to avail?
If anyone suffers from fast palpitations, dizziness or fainting spells, he or she should be brought urgently to the hospital where monitoring of heart rhythm and accurate diagnosis can be done. If the rhythm disorder requires placement of ICD, it can be done while the patient is in hospital.

How is it done?
The ICD is implanted in a special sterile room called 'Electrophysiology Laboratory' under local anesthesia, while the patient lies on the operating table fully conscious, though under mild sedation. Deeper sedation is used for brief periods for testing of the device.

In almost all cases, the ICD is implanted on the front of the chest under the clavicle (collar bone) on left or right side. This is done thru a small incision of about 5 cm. One or two pacing/defibrillation leads are placed inside the heart thru a vein, and are connected to the device.