An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator or automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator is a device implantable inside the body, able to perform cardioversion, defibrillation, and pacing of the heart. The device is therefore capable of correcting most life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias. The ICD is the first-line treatment and prophylactic therapy for patients at risk for sudden cardiac death due to ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia. Current devices can be programmed to
Ralph Macchio was the actor who played Johnny in The Outsiders. They never tell us Johnny's actual name.
S. E. Hinton (Susan Eloise Hinton) goes by her initials because  when she was writing The Outsiders, her publisher thought  it would be better to have her initials than her â¦ full name because  people assume The Outsiders is by a boy and they would  think a girl could not write that kind of story.