Ventricular fibrillation exhibits dynamical properties and self- similarity

Resuscitation

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 163-173

  Sherman, Lawrence D ^a   Callaway, Clifton W ^a   Menegazzi, James J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Defibrillation; Electrocardiography; Fractal dimension; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBEDDING; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SWINE;

ANIMAL; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SWINE; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0034307125     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9572(00)00229-X     Document Type: Article

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