Increased defibrillation threshold with right-sided active pectoral can

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 245-249

  Roberts, Paul Richard ^a   Allen, Stuart ^a   Betts, Timothy ^a   Urban, Jon Fredric ^b   Whitman, Theresa ^b   Euler, David Emmerson ^b   Kallok, Michael John ^b   Morgan, John Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b Angeion Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Active can; Defibrillation; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD); Right pectoral

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; INSTRUMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; THORAX WALL;

ANIMALS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SWINE;

EID: 0034012827     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009882016469     Document Type: Article

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