Predicting defibrillation success

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 311-316

  Strohmenger, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Defibrillation; Fast Fourier transformation; Ventricular fibrillation; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; ROC CURVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 43449116646     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e3282fc9a9c     Document Type: Review

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