The study standardizes initial therapeutic ICD settings, reflecting the current standard of care rather than an intervention, because by definition the study cohort consists of patients without a history of malignant arrhythmia, in whom the ICD functions simply as a defibrillator rather than as a more complex device employing anti-tachycardia pacing or tiered therapy. In order to facilitate the identification of rhythms prompting ICD therapy, programming includes far field ventricular electrogram storage. For patients who have firings (appropriate or not), all subsequent clinical care (including drug and device prescriptions) will be managed independently by the clinical attending electrophysiologist/cardiologist according to the local standard of care, unaffected by the study protocol. For safety reasons, any clinically-significant data (such as symptomatic complaints or documented episodes of ventricular arrhythmia) obtained during the study will be promptly communicated to the clinical attending physician both by telephone and in writing.