Dose-response relationship for successful internal atrial defibrillation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1249-1253

  Tse, Hung Fat ^a   Lau, Chu Pak ^a   Ayers, Gregory M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Atrium; Defibrillation; Fibrillation; Shock

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037728783     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.t01-1-00176.x     Document Type: Article

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