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.
The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, is a coming of age story centered around the life of Ponyboy Curtis, his brother Darryl and Sodapop, and their group of buddies, the greasers. Ponyboy, the narrator, becomes a very different person at the end of the novel as the events of his life change him in positive and negative ways.