Deciding against defibrillator replacement: Second-guessing the past?

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 12 I, 2000, Pages 2019-2021

  Schoenfeld, Mark H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DEFIBRILLATOR; EDITORIAL; EXPLANT; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0034490411     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2000.tb00769.x     Document Type: Editorial

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