The increasing number of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device (CIED)-carriers is leading to a growing need of transvenous lead extraction of various levels of complexity. Although still little utilized for patients with CIED-related infection and concomitant history of VT, report a peculiar case of transvenous lead extraction with the following temporary external cardioverter-defibrillator implantation as a bridge to reimplantation; this bridge system had a life-saving role for the patient by stopping an episode of sustained ventricular tachycardia through antitachycardia pacing.