Pacemaker stored electrograms: Teaching us what is really going on in our patients

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 838-849

  Nowak, Bernd ^a  

^a CARDIOANGIOLOGISCHES CENTRUM BETHANIEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Diagnostic data; Event counter; Sensing; Stored electrograms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTROGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; PACEMAKER; REVIEW; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; DATA STORAGE DEVICE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION;

ARRHYTHMIA; COMPUTER STORAGE DEVICES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 0036093515     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2002.t01-1-00838.x     Document Type: Review

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