The implantable cardioverter-defibrillator lead: Principles, progress, and promises: Principles

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1336-1353

  Haqqani, Haris M ^a   Mond, Harry G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomedical engineering; Defibrillation ICD; Instrumentation

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER; POLITEF; POLYETHERURETHAN; SILASTIC;

BRADYCARDIA; CONDUCTOR; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRODE; ICD LEAD; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REVIEW; TACHYCARDIA;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 70349528282     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2009.02492.x     Document Type: Review

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