Have you looked up PM/ICD
surgery risks on the American Heart Association or googled it to see the
risks? There are NO guarantees with any surgery - just risk factors; I had an ablation and I was one of the <1% that had major complications and flatlined during surgery 3 times, but flew through the PM/ICD implant and had no problems.
Consider this - my PM/ICD was $81,619, leads $23,543 ($105,000 total) that doesn't include doctors, hospital, meds, OR, recovery etc....