Initial clinical experience with a fully automatic in-hospital external cardioverter defibrillator

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1648-1655

  Mattioni, Thomas A ^a   Nademanee, Koonlawee ^b   Brodsky, Michael ^c   Fisher, John ^d   Riggio, David ^a   Allen, Byron ^c   Welch, Susan ^a   Ybarra, Raul A ^e   Dongping, Lin ^e   Dean, Edna ^e  

^a ARIZONA HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Cardiac Science Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

AED; Cardioversion; External defibrillation; In hospital cardiac arrest

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; HEART ARREST; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032731057     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1999.tb00385.x     Document Type: Article

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