Clinical predictors of atrial defibrillation thresholds with a dual-coil, active pectoral lead system

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-54

  Rashba, Eric J ^a   Shorofsky, Stephen R ^a   Brown, Traci ^a   Peters, Robert W ^a   Gold, Michael R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE RATE; RELIABILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 12144255055     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2004.10.033     Document Type: Article

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