About the Authors

Reece Holbrook

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Medtronic, plc, Dublin, Ireland

Lucas Higuera

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medtronic, plc, Dublin, Ireland

Kael Wherry

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medtronic, plc, Dublin, Ireland

Dave Phay

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medtronic, plc, Dublin, Ireland

Yu-Cheng Hsieh

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital and National Yan-Ming University School of Medicine, Taichung, Taiwan

Kuo-Hung Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, China Medical Center University Hospital

Yen-Bin Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

yenbin@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and the authors have the following competing interests: YBL and YCH received speaker fees/steering committee fees from Medtronic; YCH and KHL were co-investigators of the Medtronic Improve SCA trial; RH, LH, KW, and DP are paid employees of Medtronic. These employees of Medtronic are also shareholders. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare.