Determinants of Thoracic Electrical Impedance in External Electrical Cardioversion of Atrial Fibrillation

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 82-87

  Fumagalli, Stefano ^a   Boni, Nadia ^a   Padeletti, Margherita ^a   Gori, Francesca ^a   Boncinelli, Lorenzo ^a   Valoti, Paolo ^a   Baldasseroni, Samuele ^a   Di Bari, Mauro ^a   Masotti, Giulio ^a   Padeletti, Luigi ^a   Barold, Serge ^b   Marchionni, Niccolò ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY RESOURCE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; THORAX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33746760586     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.01.065     Document Type: Article

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