Aborted sudden death from sustained ventricular fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1198-1200

  Nair, Krishnakumar ^a   Umapathy, Karthikeyan ^a   Downar, Eugene ^a   Nanthakumar, Kumaraswamy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electrocardiography; Holter monitoring; Self termination; Ventricular fibrillation; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; POLYMORPHIC VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUDDEN DEATH; TIME;

DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 48049116421     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.04.005     Document Type: Article

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