Peripheral nerve stimulators can inhibit monitor display of pacemaker pulses

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 117-120

  Rozner, Marc A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial cardiac pacemaker; Equipment malfunction; Intraoperative monitoring; Physiologic monitoring

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIGITAL FILTERING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; NERVE STIMULATION; OPERATING ROOM; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PACEMAKER FAILURE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TETANY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 2142750130     PISSN: 09528180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2003.04.004     Document Type: Article

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