Pacemakers, recent directions and developments

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 681-686

  Bourke, Michael E ^a,b   Healey, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Artificial; Cardiac; Death; Defibrillators; Implantable; Pacemakers; Suddent

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANESTHESIA; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENT; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART PACING; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC OBSTRUCTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; MORTALITY; PACEMAKER; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SINUS NODE DYSFUNCTION; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STROKE; SUDDEN DEATH; SYNCOPE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0036932241     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001503-200212000-00013     Document Type: Review

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