The Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator, or `ICD’, is arguably the most technologically challenging type of therapy that physicians utilize today. At the same time, engineers who design ICDs are being called upon by clinicians to extend even further the technological envelope in the quest of building the `ideal’ device. To the extent, however, that physicians who utilize ICDs are not sufficiently comfortable with, or familiar with, the engineering principles that guide ICD fu (more…)