Permanent pacemaker and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation

Clinical Cardiac Pacing, Defibrillation, and Resynchronization Therapy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 561-651

  Belott, Peter H ^a   Reynolds, Dwight W ^b  

^a SHARP GROSSMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-4160-2536-8.50023-6     Document Type: Chapter

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