Failure of impedance monitoring to prevent adverse clinical events caused by fracture of a recalled high-voltage implantable cardioverter-defibrillator lead

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 775-779

  Kallinen, Linda M ^a   Hauser, Robert G ^a   Lee, Ken W ^a   Almquist, Adrian K ^a   Katsiyiannis, William T ^a   Tang, Chuen Y ^a   Melby, Daniel P ^a   Gornick, Charles C ^a  

^a MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Follow up; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Lead

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONDUCTOR; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; HEART PACING; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY; IMPLANTATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PULSE GENERATOR; RELIABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CARDIOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 46349091062     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.02.039     Document Type: Article

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