Impact directly over the cardiac silhouette is necessary to produce ventricular fibrillation in an experimental model of commotio cordis

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 649-654

  Link, Mark S ^a,c   Maron, Barry J ^b   VanderBrink, Brian A ^a   Takeuchi, Masaaki ^a   Pandian, Natesa G ^a   Wang, Paul J ^a   Estes III, N A Mark ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEBALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART CYCLE; HEART INJURY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SUDDEN DEATH; SWINE; THORAX INJURY;

ANIMALS; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BASEBALL; BLOOD PRESSURE; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART INJURIES; RISK FACTORS; SWINE; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0035131278     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(00)01142-6     Document Type: Article

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