Inappropriate discharges of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator secondary to automatic adjustable gain of atrial tachycardia

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1721-1722

  Schecter, Stuart O ^a   Greenberg, Steven M ^b   Hoch, David H ^b   Cesa, Michael ^b   Levine, Joseph H ^b  

^a ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Atrial tachycardia; Auto adjustable gain; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Oversensing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; SENSOR; TELEMETRY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BUNDLE OF HIS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MALE; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR;

EID: 0030802120     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb03547.x     Document Type: Article

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