Editorial: Continuous heart rhythm monitoring to detect and quantify atrial fibrillation

Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 889-890

  Meyer, Christian ^a,b   Pürerfellner, Helmut ^a  

^a Academic Teaching Hospital   (Austria)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; ALGORITHM; HEART RATE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 77954510734     PISSN: 14779072     EISSN: 17448344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erc.10.73     Document Type: Editorial

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