Precise electrocardiographic measurements and clinical sense

Europace

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 550-553

  Malik, Marek ^a,b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b St Paul's Cardiac Electrophysiology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; DEFIBRILLATOR; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QRS COMPLEX;

ALGORITHMS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PATIENT SELECTION;

EID: 66749139148     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eup043     Document Type: Editorial

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