Successful parental use of an automated external defibrillator for an infant with long-QT syndrome

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Divekar, Abhay ^a   Soni, Reeni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automated external defibrillator; Long QT syndrome; Sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

MEXILETINE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INFANT; LONG QT SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORSADE DES POINTES; CARDIOVERSION; EMERGENCY; FIRST AID; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PARENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; SUDDEN DEATH;

ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; FIRST AID; HUMANS; INFANT; LONG QT SYNDROME; MEXILETINE; PARENTS; PATIENT EDUCATION; TORSADES DE POINTES; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 33748433297     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-0129     Document Type: Article

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