Telemetry-documented, pace-terminable ventricular tachycardia in patients with ventricular fibrillation

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 235-238

  Exner, Derek V ^a   Gillis, Anne M ^a   Sheldon, Robert S ^a   Wyse, D George ^a   Duff, Henry J ^a   Cassidy, Peggy R ^a   Mitchell, L Brent ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEMETRY;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; TELEMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0032518662     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00880-1     Document Type: Article

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