Refractory period extension during ventricular pacing at fibrillatory pacing rates

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 3 I, 1997, Pages 647-653

  Gill, Robert M ^a   Sweeney, Robert J ^a   Reid, Philip R ^a  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

defibrillation; electric countershock; fibrillation; refractoriness; refractory period extension; ventricular pacing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATION; DOG; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; DOGS; HEART VENTRICLES; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0030968093     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb03883.x     Document Type: Article

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