An experimental model of sudden death due to low-energy chest-wall impact (commotio cordis)

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 338, Issue 25, 1998, Pages 1805-1811

  Link, Mark S ^a   Wang, Paul J ^a   Pandian, Natesa G ^a   Bharati, Saroja ^b   Udelson, James E ^a   Lee, Man Young ^a   Vecchiotti, Mark A ^a   VanderBrink, Brian A ^a   Mirra, Gianluca ^a   Maron, Barry J ^c   Estes III, N A Mark ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ADVOCATE CHRIST MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASEBALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART BLOCK; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SPORT INJURY; SUDDEN DEATH; SWINE; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA;

ANIMALS; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BASEBALL; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDIES; HEART BLOCK; RISK; SPORTS EQUIPMENT; SWINE; THORACIC INJURIES; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0032543549     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199806183382504     Document Type: Article

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