Laser lead extraction: Is there a learning curve?

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 180-184

  Ghosh, Nina ^a   Yee, Raymond ^a   Klein, George J ^a   Quantz, Mackenzie ^a   Novick, Richard J ^a   Skanes, Allan C ^a   Krahn, Andrew D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complication; Laser; Lead extraction; Learning curve; Pacemaker

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; EROSION; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; LASER; LASER LEAD EXTRACTION; LEARNING CURVE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATING ROOM; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PAIN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; TRAINING; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARDIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 15344351659     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.09368.x     Document Type: Article

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