Influence of acute exposure to high altitude and hypoxemia on ventricular stimulation thresholds in pacemaker patients

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 4 I, 2000, Pages 512-515

  Weilenmann, Daniel ^a   Duru, Firat ^a   Schönbeck, Mariette ^a   Schenk, Benno ^a   Zwicky, Peter ^a   Russi, Erich W ^a   Candinas, Reto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autocapture; High altitude; Hypoxemia; Pacemaker; Stimulation threshold

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION;

EID: 0034050697     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2000.tb00836.x     Document Type: Article

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