Combined atrial and ventricular antitachycardia pacing as a novel method of rhythm discrimination: The dynamic discrimination download study

Circulation

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 487-497

  Saba, Samir ^a   Volosin, Kent ^b   Yee, Raymond ^c   Swerdlow, Charles ^d   Brown, Mark ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^d CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Antitachycardia pacing; Defibrillator; Rhythm discrimination

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 76349123801     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.892570     Document Type: Article

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