Relation of the intraoperative defibrillation threshold to successful postoperative defibrillation with an automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator

The American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 1988, Pages 393-398

  Marchlinski, Francis E ^a,b   Flores, Belinda ^a,b   Miller, John M ^a,b   Gottlieb, Charles D ^a,b   Hargrove III, W Clark ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATOR; FOLLOW UP; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0023786718     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(88)90965-4     Document Type: Article

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