ICD Therapy. The ICD was developed in the 1970s as a device to detect and automatically terminate ventricular tachyarrhythmias.5,6 Early ICDs were large devices that required a thoracotomy to implant. Improvements in batteries, capacitors, and microprocessors7 have resulted in the rapid evolution of ICD technology.
A designated Roth contribution is a type of elective deferral that employees can make to their 401(k), 403(b) or governmental 457(b) retirement plan.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A pledge fund, in finance, is a private equity investment platform where unlike a traditional committed private equity fund, investors provide capital on a deal-by-deal basis. In a pledge fund, the investors provide a loose commitment of capital to an investment team, the manager of the fund, to make investments within certain preset parameters. Thereafter, the investors must approve each transaction and will decide whether to pursue each transaction independently.