Total failure to sense ventricular fibrillation with inappropriate defibrillator sensitivity adjustment

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1321-1323

  Lin, David ^a   Dixit, Sanjay ^a   Russo, Andrea M ^a   Hsia, Henry H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Defibrillation; Sensing; Ventricular arrhythmia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SAFETY; SINUS NODE DYSFUNCTION;

AGED; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 4644338784     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2004.00628.x     Document Type: Article

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