On the left side of the human chest is an organ about the size of a fist, commonly referred to as the heart. Responsible for pumping blood throughout the entire body, the heart is essentially the life force of mankind. For reasons such as natural causes, generational inheritance, or over exertion, people can have an abnormal heart rhythm. Dr. Michel Mirowski studied arrhythmias and the first Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) was used in 1980. “ICDs are for people who have had an abnormal, fast heart rate that caused them to faint or caused their heart to stop pumping properly” (“Implantable”, 2015). A recent media release by CNBC entitled “FDA Releases Class I Recall on St. Jude’s Defibrillator Leads”, summarizes an ICD failure
