Defibrillation efficacy of commercially available biphasic impulses in humans: Importance of negative-phase peak voltage

Circulation

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1822-1826

  Tomassoni, Gery ^b   Newby, Keith ^b   Deshpande, Sanjay ^b   Axtell, Kathi ^b   Sra, Jasbir ^b   Akhtar, Masood ^b   Natale, Andrea ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

defibrillation; nonthoracotomy lead system; waves

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0030897078     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.95.7.1822     Document Type: Article

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