{"id":811,"date":"2013-02-05T16:08:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T21:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/?p=811"},"modified":"2013-03-14T14:39:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T18:39:16","slug":"renees-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/2013\/02\/renees-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Renee&#8217;s Story: New Lifesaving Implantable Defibrillator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/content.bitsontherun.com\/players\/Emxxq0pv-PfkgzvIG.js\"><\/script><br \/>\nRenee was shocked when she found out she was at risk for sudden cardiac death; she had no symptoms. A family history and exam showed she had a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. \u00a0When she spoke with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooperhealth.org\/physicians\/andrea-m-russo-md\">Andrea Russo, MD,<\/a> they decided Renee was a perfect candidate for a new device called a \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooperhealth.org\/treatments\/subcutaneous-internal-cardiac-defibrillator-s-icd\">subcutaneous implantable cardiac defibrillator<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooperhealth.org\/treatments\/subcutaneous-internal-cardiac-defibrillator-s-icd\">S-ICD<\/a>). This device, the first internal defibrillator of its kind, has no leads touching the heart and is less visible on the body than a traditional ICD. Now, several months since her surgery, Renee talks about her decision to get this lifesaving device and how it never stops her from doing the things she loves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renee was shocked  when she found out she was at risk for sudden cardiac death; she had no symptoms. A family history and exam showed she had a thickening of her heart muscle and when she spoke with Andrea Russo, MD, they decided Renee was a perfect candidate for a new device called a S-ICD. This device, the first internal defibrillator of its kind, has no leads touching the heart and is less visible on the body than a traditional ICD.  Now, several months since her surgery, Renee talks about her decision to get this life saving device and how it never stops her from doing the things she loves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-811","7":"format-standard","8":"category-videos2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}