Resolving the conflict: Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator shocks for ventricular tachyarrhythmias increase mortality

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1328-1330

  Swerdlow, Charles ^a   Ellenbogen, Kenneth A ^a,b   Klein, George J ^a,c  

^a Cedars Sinai Heart Institute   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; ventricular tachyarrhythmias

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN;

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK;

EID: 84864446620     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.11.039     Document Type: Editorial

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