Intracardiac voltage gradients during transthoracic defibrillation: Implications for postshock myocardial injury

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 99-105

  Niemann, James T ^a   Walker, Robert G ^b   Rosborough, John P ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Physio Control Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

defibrillators; myocardial injury; shock; voltage gradient; waveforms

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTRODE; ENERGY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; IMPEDANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; WAVEFORM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIPHASIC WAVEFORM; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; MONOPHASIC WAVEFORM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOCK; TRANSTHORACIC DEFIBRILLATION; TRANSTHORACIC IMPEDANCE; TRANSTHORACIC SHOCK; VOLTAGE GRADIENT;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; HEART INJURIES; LINEAR MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWINE;

EID: 12844264293     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.10.015     Document Type: Article

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