Application of radiofrequency energy in surgical and interventional procedures: Are there interactions with ICDs?

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 293-298

  Fiek, Michael ^a,b   Dorwarth, Uwe ^a   Durchlaub, Ilka ^a   Janko, Sabine ^a   Von Bary, Christian ^a   Steinbeck, Gerhard ^a   Hoffmann, Ellen ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrical cautery; Electromagnetic interference; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Radiofrequency ablation; Radiofrequency energy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; RADIOFREQUENCY; SAFETY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC SPINE; THORAX SURGERY; VATER PAPILLOTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 1542611327     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2004.00430.x     Document Type: Article

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