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
Keith Two-Bit Mathews, is eighteen and a half, and still a Junior in high school. He's actually the 2nd oldest (Darry is 20), and is known for stealing.. He makes people laugh and has a very fun personality, along with lazy, often being teased for not having a job. His nickname is Two, and he does not like his real name. He is called Two-Bit because he always has to add in his two bits.
In the realistic fiction book, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, the narrator is Ponyboy. He is one of the few members of the gang he belongs to, which most people calls greasers Johnny Cade is one of them. He is a timid guy now, but he has not always been that way.