Influence of electromagnetic fields on function of automated external defibrillators

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-6

  Fleischhackl, Roman ^a,b   Singer, Florian ^b   Nitsche, Wolfgang ^c   Gamperl, Guenther ^c   Roessler, Bernhard ^a,b   Arrich, Jasmin ^a   Fleischhackl, Sabine ^b   Losert, Heidrun ^a   Sterz, Fritz ^a   Mittlboeck, Martina ^a   Hoerauf, Klaus ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Vienna Red Cross   (Austria)

^c Federal Institute of Technology   (Austria)

Author keywords

Automated external defibrillator; Electromagnetic interference; Public access defibrillation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPEN STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; SHOCK; SINUS RHYTHM;

ADULT; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 29244468598     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.07.036     Document Type: Article

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