On the mechanism of ventricular defibrillation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2 II, 1997, Pages 422-431

  Walcott, Gregory P ^a   Knisley, Stephen B ^a   Zhou, Xiaohong ^a   Newton, Jonathan C ^a   Ideker, Raymond E ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; HEART ARREST; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; WAVEFORM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0031042498     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb06201.x     Document Type: Article

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