Editorial: Is anyone too old for an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator?

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-8

  Heidenreich, Paul A ^a   Tsai, Vivian ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Cost benefit analysis; Defibrillation; Defibrillators; Editorials; Heart failure; Implantable

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE; EDITORIAL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; AGE; AGED; CARDIOVERSION; ECONOMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; COMORBIDITY; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77649195771     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.108.842369     Document Type: Editorial

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