Inappropriate management of self-terminating ventricular arrhythmias by implantable cardioverter defibrillators despite a specific reconfirmation algorithm: A report of two cases

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5 I, 1997, Pages 1328-1331

  Hurst, Tanja M ^a   Krieglstein, Holger ^b   Tillmanns, Harald ^a   Waldecker, Bernd ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

implantable cardioverter defibrillator; inappropriate shock therapy; ventricular arrhythmias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTRIC SHOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MALE; TELEMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 0030973432     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb06787.x     Document Type: Article

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