Mechanisms of defibrillation

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages 233-258

  Dosdall, Derek J ^a   Fast, Vladimir G ^b   Ideker, Raymond E ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac mapping; electrical shock; resuscitation; transmembrane potential; ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC MAPPING; CELLULAR LEVELS; COMPUTER MODELING; CRITICAL POINTS; ELECTRICAL SHOCK; ELECTROPORATION; FIELD GRADIENT; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; OPTICAL MAPPING; TRANSMEMBRANE POTENTIALS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; VIRTUAL ELECTRODE;

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; ELECTRIC ACCIDENTS; ELECTRODES; RESUSCITATION;

MAPPING;

NIFEDIPINE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL MEMBRANE; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPORATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MUSCLE CELL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW; TISSUE STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARDIOVERSION; DOG; HEART; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; SWINE; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; DOGS; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPORATION; HEART; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RABBITS; SWINE; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 77955629578     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-070909-105305     Document Type: Review

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