Skin-temperature distribution under a new type of defibrillating electrode

Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 164-168

  Bourland, Joe D ^a   Geddes, Leslie A ^b   Graber, George P ^b   Foster, Kirk S ^b   Schoenlein, William E ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFIBRILLATORS; ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL EQUIPMENT; PROBES; SKIN; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

CURRENT DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; DEFIBRILLATING ELECTRODE; FIBEROPTIC THERMAL PROBE DETECTORS;

TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BURN; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SWINE; THERMOMETERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032032822     PISSN: 08998205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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