Prevention of inappropriate therapy in implantable cardioverter- defibrillators: Results of a prospective, randomized study of tachyarrhythmia detection algorithms

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2362-2367

  Theuns, Dominic A M J ^a   Klootwijk, A Peter J ^a   Goedhart, Dick M ^b   Jordaens, Luc J L M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Rotterdam the Netherlands ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TACHYCARDIA; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 10644292742     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2004.09.039     Document Type: Article

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