Antiarrhythmic device advisories and recalls: Managing an increasingly vulnerable process

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 22, Issue 6 I, 1999, Pages 950-952

  Saksena, Sanjeev ^a,b  

^a Atlantic Health   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; COMPUTER; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; LAW; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PACEMAKER FAILURE; REVIEW; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; POSTMARKETING SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES;

ARRHYTHMIA; DATABASES; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PRODUCT SURVEILLANCE, POSTMARKETING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032973205     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1999.tb06821.x     Document Type: Review

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