Comparing the Efficacy and Safety of a Novel Monophasic Waveform Delivered by the Passive Implantable Atrial Defibrillator with Biphasic Waveforms in Cardioversion of Atrial Fibrillation

Circulation

Volumn 109, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1686-1692

  Manoharan, Ganesh ^a,b,c   Evans, Noel ^b   Allen, Desmond ^a,c   Anderson, John ^b   Adgey, Jennifer ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Cardioversion; Fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEMODYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SHOCK; SWINE; WAVEFORM;

ANIMALS; CARDIAC OUTPUT; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLYCOLYSIS; HEART INJURIES; HEART RATE; MUSCLE PROTEINS; RADIATION; SWINE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 1842507622     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000124068.69162.4E     Document Type: Article

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