Modified temporary cardiac pacing using transvenous active fixation leads and external re-sterilized pulse generators [1]

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1487-1489

  Zei, Paul C ^a   Eckart, Robert E ^b   Epstein, Laurence M ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEVICE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART PACING; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFECTION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FIXATION; PULSE GENERATOR; TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ARRHYTHMIA; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; STERILIZATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645420673     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.01.006     Document Type: Letter

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