A fatal device-device interaction between a wearable automated defibrillator and a unipolar ventricular pacemaker

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 912-915

  Lapage, Martin J ^a   Canter, Charles E ^a   Rhee, Edward K ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical; Defibrillation; Electrophysiology; ICD; Pacing; Pediatrics; VT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE COURSE; HEART ARREST; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; ADOLESCENT; EQUIPMENT; FATALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL ERROR;

ADOLESCENT; DEFIBRILLATORS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 55249083611     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2008.01110.x     Document Type: Article

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