VEST: Wearable cardioverter-defibrillator fails to prevent sudden death after MI

Though they might provide some benefit to high-risk patients in the month after a heart attack, wearable cardioverter-defibrillators don’t significantly lower the rate of arrhythmic death in those who have suffered myocardial infarctions, according to work published in the New England Journal of Medicine Sept. 27.

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