Inappropriate analyses of automated external defibrillators used during in-hospital ventricular fibrillation

Circulation Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 679-681

  Yamamoto, Takeshi ^a   Takayama, Morimasa ^a   Sato, Naoki ^a   Yodogawa, Kenji ^a   Iwasaki, Yu Ki ^a   Kato, Koji ^a   Yoshida, Asuka ^a   Yoshida, Ryusuke ^a   Tanaka, Keiji ^a   Takano, Teruo ^a   Mizuno, Kyoichi ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arrest; Automated external defibrillator; Pacemakers

Indexed keywords

DIGOXIN;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFRIBRILLATOR; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COLON POLYP; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART ARREST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; NEPHRECTOMY; PACEMAKER; RESUSCITATION; TACHYCARDIA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEFIBRILLATORS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RENAL DIALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 43549084535     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.72.679     Document Type: Article

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