Transtelephone monitoring for pacemaker follow-up 1981-1994

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 19, Issue 12 I, 1996, Pages 2089-2098

  Platt, Simie ^a   Furman, Seymour ^a,b   Gross, Jay N ^a   Andrews, Carolyn ^a   Benedek, Michael ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Battery depletion; Cardiac pacing; Lead failure; Pacemaker lead malfunction; Pulse generator malfunction; Transtelephone monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; DEVICE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENERGY RESOURCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CONTRACTION; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PULSE GENERATOR; TELEPHONE;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; TELEPHONE;

EID: 0030475892     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1996.tb03283.x     Document Type: Review

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