The defibrillation efficacy of high frequency alternating current sinusoidal waveforms in guinea pigs

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 599-604

  Roberts, Scott J ^a   Guan, Dongxu ^a   Malkin, Robert ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Defibrillation; Efficacy; Waveform

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTRODE; ENERGY; GUINEA PIG; HEART; NONHUMAN; STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0037305203     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.00100.x     Document Type: Article

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