A 17 year experience of inappropriate shock therapy in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: Are we getting any better?

Heart

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 330-331

  Rinaldi, C A ^a,b   Simon, R D ^a   Baszko, A ^a   Bostock, J ^a   Elliot, D ^a   Bucknall, C A ^a   Gill, J S S ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; SOTALOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSIVE THERAPY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXPERIENCE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SINUS TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 1342322737     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2003.026195     Document Type: Article

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