Strength‐Duration Curves of Fixed Pulse Width Variable Tilt Truncated Exponential Waveforms for Nonthoracomy Internal Defibrillation in Dogs

Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1988, Pages 1045-1050

  CHAPMAN, PETER D ^a   WETHERBEE, JULE N ^a   VETTER, JAMES W ^a   TROUP, PAUL ^a   SOUZA, JOSEPH ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

average current; canine defibrillation; defibrillation threshold; truncated exponential waveform

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; DEFIBRILLATION; DOG; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; NONHUMAN;

ANIMAL; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; DOGS; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; MALE;

EID: 0024206230     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1988.tb03950.x     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Nonthoracotomy internal defibrillation in dogs: Threshold reduction using a subcutaneous chest wall electrode with a transvenous catheter electrode
2. Bipolar catheter defibrillation in dogs using trapezoidal waveforms of various tilts J
3. Strength‐duration curves for trapezoidal waveforms of various tilts for transchest defibriliation in animals
4. Mortality in patients with implanted automatic defibrillators
5. Clinical experience, complications, and survival in 70 patients with the automatic implantable cardioverter‐defibrillator
6. Cardiac arrhythmias following condenser discharges and their dependence upon strength of current and phase of the cardiac cycle
7. Treatment of ventricular fibrillation using a capacitor discharge
8. Optimum current duration for capacitor‐discharge defibrillation of canine ventricles
9. The cardiac ventricular defibrillation threshold: Inherent limitations in its application and interpretation