Positioning the pacing esophageal stethoscope for transesophageal atrial pacing without P-wave recording: Implications for transesophageal ventricular pacing

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 48-54

  Roth, Jonathan V ^a   Brody, Joshua D ^a   Denham, E Joseph ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; MALE; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE GENERATOR; STETHOSCOPE;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STETHOSCOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029943310     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199607000-00009     Document Type: Article

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