Setting of relatively low energy outputs may permit implantation of a nonthoracotomy automatic cardioverter defibrillator system when high energy outputs prove ineffective

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1516-1518

  Winters, Stephen L ^a,b   Casale, Alfred S ^a   Inglesby, Thomas V ^a,b   Curwin, Jay H ^a  

^a MORRISTOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

automatic cardioverter defibrillator; ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DEFIBRILLATOR; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; THORACOTOMY;

AGED; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HUMANS; MALE; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0029795465     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1996.tb03168.x     Document Type: Article

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