It consists of a battery-powered pulse generator and several wires that are connected to the heart.

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This field needs to put the era of lead and pulse generator problems behind us.

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In addition, despite the loss of two connector ports, ICD pulse generator volumes are no smaller across vendors ( EuroPace article, table 2).

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Observe in figure 3 above that an ICD lead properly wound into the pocket will hide its bulk behind the pulse generator and may not be noticeable.

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