# Permanent Defibrillator Electrodes
> **Product code: NVY** · Class III — High Risk (PMA approval required, life-sustaining) · Unknown · —
## Classification
- **FDA Product Code:** NVY
- **Device class:** Class III — High Risk (PMA approval required, life-sustaining)
- **Regulation:** —
- **Review panel:** CV
- **Medical specialty:** Unknown
- **Submission type:** 2
- **GMP exempt:** N
- **Life sustaining:** Y
- **Implant:** Y
- **Third-party review:** N
## Definition

Permanent defibrillator electrodes are used with compatible implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) and cardiac rhythm therapy-defibrillators (CRT-D) to sense the cardiac rhythm and to deliver high energy therapy to the heart when tachycardia is detected.  Some transvenous models can also be used for pacing the right ventricle.

## Market data
- **Cleared 510(k) submissions:** 0
- **Registered establishments:** 37
## Source
- [FDA Device Classification](https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpcd/classification.cfm?ID=NVY)
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