The automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator as antiarrhythmic treatment modality of choice for survivors of cardiac arrest unrelated to acute myocardial infarction

The American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 62, Issue 10 PART 1, 1988, Pages 803-805

  Lehmann, Michael H ^a,b   Steinman, Russell T ^a,b   Schuger, Claudio D ^a,b   Jackson, Kenneth ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARPER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIOVERSION; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ARRHYTHMIA; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 0024095379     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(88)91226-X     Document Type: Editorial

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