Effect of rates of perfusion on dominant frequency and defibrillation energy in isolated fibrillating hearts

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 4 I, 2000, Pages 504-511

  Barton, Christopher W ^a,c   Cascio, Wayne E ^a   Batson, David N ^a   Engle, Connie L ^a   Johnson, Timothy A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c 1E21 Emergency Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Defibrillation; Digital signal processing; Langendorff; Resuscitation; VF

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENERGY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0034094353     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2000.tb00835.x     Document Type: Article

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