Outpatient electrical cardioversion of atrial fibrillation: 8 years' experience. analysis of shock-related arrhythmias

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1152-1158

  Morani, Giovanni ^a,b   Cicoira, Mariantonietta ^a   Pozzani, Laura ^a   Angheben, Carlo ^a   Zanotto, Gabriele ^a   Vassanelli, Corrado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Data analysis; Databases; Pacing

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ATENOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; ENOXAPARIN; FLECAINIDE; HEPARIN; PROPAFENONE; QUINIDINE; SOTALOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DATA BASE; DIRECT CURRENT; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; SINUS RHYTHM; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRADYCARDIA; COMORBIDITY; ELECTRIC INJURIES; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 69849092918     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2009.02457.x     Document Type: Article

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