Treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with a low-energy impedance- compensating biphasic waveform automatic external defibrillator

Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 631-644

  Gliner, Bradford E ^a   Jorgenson, Dawn B ^a   Poole, Jeanne E ^b   White, Roger D ^c   Kanz, Karl Georg ^d   Lyster, Thomas D ^a   Leyde, Kent W ^a   Powers, Daniel J ^a   Morgan, Carlton B ^a   Kronmal, Richard A ^b   Bardy, Gust H ^b  

^a Suite 500 2401 Fourth Ave WA 98121   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS; LOW-ENERGY IMPEDANCE-COMPENSATING BIPHASIC WAVEFORMS;

DEFIBRILLATORS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AUTOMATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 6544276577     PISSN: 08998205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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