Derivation of a defibrillator implant criterion based on probability of successful defibrillation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 8 I, 1997, Pages 1924-1935

  Degroot, Paul J ^a   Church, Timothy R ^a   Mehra, Rahul ^a   Martinson, Melissa S ^a   Schaber, Daniel E ^a  

^a MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic implantable defibrillator; Defibrillation efficacy curves; Defibrillation threshold; Implant criterion; Mathematical models; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; SAFETY; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0030851509     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb03598.x     Document Type: Article

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