Automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator rhythm strip data as used in interpretation of a motor vehicle accident

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 256-260

  Dolinak, David ^a,b   Guileyardo, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Miami Dade Medical Examiner Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Motor vehicle fatality; Ventricular tachyarrhythmia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DATA ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOPSY; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 0034855914     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000433-200109000-00011     Document Type: Article

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