Performance of temporary epicardial stainless steel wire electrodes used to treat atrial fibrillation: A study in patients following open heart surgery

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 315-319

  Liebold, Andreas ^a,b   Rödig, Gabriele ^a   Birnbaum, Dietrich E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial defibrillation; Cardiac surgery; Epicardial electrodes

Indexed keywords

STAINLESS STEEL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAL IMPLANTATION; OPEN HEART SURGERY; P WAVE; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032978778     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1999.tb00444.x     Document Type: Article

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