The salty dog: Serum sodium and potassium effects on modern pacing electrodes

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 4-11

  McVenes, Rick ^a   Hansen, Nancy ^a   Lahtinen, Stuart P ^a   Stokes, Ken ^a,b  

^a MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrolytes; Pacing; Sensing; Threshold

Indexed keywords

LEAD; PLATINUM; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RINGER SOLUTION; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STEROID;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DOG; DRUG INFUSION; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ENDOCARDIUM; ENERGY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART PACING; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE; IMPEDANCE; LIQUID; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PARAMETER; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PULSE GENERATOR; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; DOGS; ELECTRODES; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; WATER-ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE;

EID: 33846323283     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00573.x     Document Type: Article

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