Polarity reversal improves defibrillation efficacy in patients undergoing transvenous cardioverter defibrillator implantation with biphasic shocks

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2 I, 1997, Pages 301-306

  Schauerte, Patrick ^a   Stellbrink, Christoph ^a,b   Schöndube, Friedrich A ^a   Löser, Holger ^a   Haltern, Georg ^a   Messmer, Bruno J ^a   Hanrath, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

defibrillation; implantable defibrillator; polarity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; SUDDEN DEATH;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0031025675     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb06174.x     Document Type: Article

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