Review of the Registry's Second Year, Data Collected, and Plans to Add Lead and Pediatric ICD Procedures

esenc F d m l b t G t N d s Q o M N h a c p i t t i e r i e t a e y p c e t t b T t ntroduction he National ICD Registry became the sole repository of CD implantation data for Medicare beneficiaries April 1, 006 and as of June 2008 had collected data from 1,448 ospitals in the United States totaling over 270,373 imlants. This registry was developed through a partnership of he Heart Rhythm Society (HRS; www.HRSonline.org) and he American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF; ww.acc.org) utilizing the expertise of the National C iovascular Data Registry (NCDR; www.accncdr.com). he National ICD Registry is accruing ICD implants at the ate of 10,000 per month with 88% of implants being done n hospitals that enter all patients receiving ICDs including oth primary and secondary prevention indications in all ge groups. A rigorous Data Quality Reporting process is in lace to ensure data accuracy and hospital auditing will egin the summer of 2008. Six abstracts have been pr ed, and four manuscripts are in development utilizing ata generated from the National ICD Registry answering ey clinical questions elicited from the growing ICD imlant patient database ( http://www.accncdr.com). Funding or the Longitudinal ICD Registry Study has been procured, nd the study will begin in 2008. The scope of the National CD registry is being expanded to include data on new trial, ventricular, defibrillation, and left-heart leads placed t the time of ICD implant and whenever existing leads are epositioned, replaced, extracted or abandoned. These data ill assist the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with urveillance of lead performance. Pediatric ICD implantaions will be followed in the Registry; and the Registry is eing positioned to serve as a performance reporting tool to ssist with quality measures.