The incidence and severity of cutaneous burns following external DC cardioversion

Resuscitation

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 281-288

  Ambler, Jonathan J S ^a   Sado, Daniel M ^a   Zideman, David A ^b   Deakin, Charles D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Arritmia; Burn injury; Contrachoque el ctrico; Defibrillation; Descarga el ctrica; Desfibrilaci n; Desfibrilha o; Electric countershock; Les o por queimadura; Lesi n por quemadura

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN; CARDIOVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIRECT CURRENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ENERGY; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATIENT; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORY SYSTEM; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TIME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; BURNS; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 2542480866     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2004.01.017     Document Type: Article

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