Effects of mobile telephones on the function of implantable cardioverter defibrillators

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 409-413

  Tandogan, Izzet ^a   Ozin, Bulent ^b   Bozbas, Huseyin ^b   Turhan, Sibel ^c   Ozdemir, Ramazan ^d   Yetkin, Ertan ^d   Topal, Ergun ^d  

^a CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Mobile phone

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MOBILE PHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL TRIAL; EQUIPMENT; STATISTICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ARTIFACTS; CELLULAR PHONE; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TURKEY; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 33644790159     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: 1542474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.2005.00057.x     Document Type: Article

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