Interference with an implantable defibrillator by an electronic antitheft-surveillance device

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 339, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 1371-1374

  Santucci, Peter A ^a   Haw, Janet ^a   Trohman, Richard G ^a   Pinski, Sergio L ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART PACING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SECURITY MEASURES; THEFT;

EID: 0032487943     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199811053391905     Document Type: Article

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