Automatic pace-sense polarity switch as an indicator of early lead corrosion: The usefulness of impedance trend graphing

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1179-1180

  Williams, Deborah ^a,b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Impedance trending; Polarity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CASE REPORT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART PACING; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; TELEMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033941154     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2000.tb00923.x     Document Type: Article

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