ICDs: Evidence, guidelines and glitches

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 800-803

  Packer, Douglas L ^a   Gillis, Anne M ^b   Calkins, Hugh ^c   Deering, Thomas F ^d   Fogel, Richard I ^e   Wilkoff, Bruce L ^f  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d PIEDMONT HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e St Vincent Medical Center   (United States)

^f LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DECISION MAKING; DEFIBRILLATOR; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUDDEN DEATH;

DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 79955439879     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.03.041     Document Type: Article

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