Lidocaine and sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia: Fact or fiction

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 82-83

  Josephson, Mark E ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; PROCAINAMIDE;

ARTICLE; DRUG MECHANISM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0030200633     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00271-8     Document Type: Editorial

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