Inappropriate therapy due to triple counting of the ventricular electrogram in a patient with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1253-1255

  Alasti, Mohammad ^a   Haghjoo, Majid ^a   Alizadeh, Abolfath ^a   Fazelifar, Amir Farjam ^a   Sadr Ameli, Mohammad Ali ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Inappropriate therapy; Triple counting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEFIBRILLATOR; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FATALITY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; RR INTERVAL; SINUS RHYTHM; THERAPEUTIC ERROR;

DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 27744492189     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2005.08.004     Document Type: Article

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