Inappropriate shock delivery and biventricular pacing cardiac defibrillators

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-49

  Liu, Brant C ^a   Villareal, Rollo P ^a   Hariharan, Ramesh ^a   Rasekh, Abdi ^a   Massumi, Ali ^a  

^a ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia prevention control; Biventricular pacing; Cardiac pacing, artificial methods; Cardiac resynchronization; Defibrillators, implantable; Inappropriate shocks; Tachycardia, ventricular therapy; Ventricular double counting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; SUDDEN DEATH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 0037221955     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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