We offer this commonly to our elderly or ill CRT responders, and anyone else in whom ICD therapy is nolongerappropriateor desired, who still need pacing therapy.
The ILF was established in 1988, but the government decided in 2010 that it had become "no longerappropriateor sustainable" to keep running the scheme outside the mainstream social care system.
This procedure is sometimes appropriate in patients nolonger needing or desiring defibrillation backup at battery depletion but still having pacing indications.