Failure of automatic mode switching: Recognition and management

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2 I, 1997, Pages 268-275

  Ellenbogen, Kenneth A ^a,d   Mond, Harry G ^b   Wood, Mark A ^a   Barold, Serge S ^c  

^a HUNTER HOLMES MCGUIRE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

atrial arrhythmias; atrial flutter; mode switching; pacemakers

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; MALE; OSCILLATION; PAROXYSMAL SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SICK SINUS SYNDROME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SICK SINUS SYNDROME;

EID: 0031018205     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb06170.x     Document Type: Article

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