A randomized prospective study of single coil versus dual coil defibrillation in patients with ventricular arrhythmias undergoing implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1684-1690

  Rinaldi, C Aldo ^a,d   Simon, Ron D B ^a   Geelen, Peter ^b   Reek, Sven ^c   Baszko, Artur ^a   Kuehl, Martin ^b   Gill, Jaswinder S ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Cardiothorac Ctr St Thomas Hosp   (Belgium)

^c Cardiothorac Ctr St Thomas Hosp   (Germany)

^d ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Defibrillation; Heart arrest; Tachyarrhythmias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DOUBLE COIL DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE COIL DEFIBRILLATION; TACHYCARDIA;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0042701466     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.t01-1-00253.x     Document Type: Article

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