Equipment-related electrocardiographic artifacts: Causes, characteristics, consequences, and correction

Anesthesiology

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 138-148

  Patel, Santosh I ^a,b   Souter, Michael J ^b  

^a ROYAL LANCASTER INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SUPRAVENTRICULAR PREMATURE BEAT; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 37549002903     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.anes.0000296537.62905.25     Document Type: Review

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