Antitachycardia pacing to terminate ventricular tachyarrhythmia: new insights into how to reduce painful implantable cardioverter defibrillator shocks.

This editorial refers to ‘Safety and efficacy of programming a high number of antitachycardia pacing attempts for fast ventricular tachycardia: a prospective study’ by R.P. Martins et al., on page 1457 and ‘First inappropriate implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy is often due to inaccurate device programming: analysis of the French OPERA registry’ by A. Leenhardt et al., on page 1465