Performance of basic ventricular tachycardia detection algorithms in implantable cardioverter defibrillators: Implications for device programming

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 12 I, 1997, Pages 2975-2983

  Anderson, Mark H ^b   Murgatroyd, Francis D ^b   Hnatkova, Katerina ^b   Xie, Baiyan ^b   Jones, Susan ^b   Rowland, Edward ^b   Ward, David E ^b   Camm, A John ^b   Malik, Marek ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Device programming; Inappropriate therapy; Receiver operator characteristics; Tachycardia detection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 0031452614     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb05469.x     Document Type: Article

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