Open-chest epicardial "surgical" defibrillation: Biphasic versus monophasic waveform shocks

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 711-718

  Zhang, Yi ^a   Davies, Loyd R ^a   Coddington, William J ^a   Bridget Zimmerman, M ^a   Wuthrich, Scott ^d   Jones, Janice L ^b   Kerber, Richard E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Cardioversion; Defibrillation; Fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTRODE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; OPEN HEART SURGERY; RANDOMIZATION; STERNOTOMY; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SWINE; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0037357361     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.00121.x     Document Type: Article

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