Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: Is there life after death?

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 2-6

  Van Heuverswyn, Frederic E ^a   Timmers, Liesbeth ^a   Stroobandt, Roland X ^a   Barold, S Serge ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b Florida Heart Rhythm Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM;

ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; AUTOPSY; BATTERY INDUSTRY; BELGIUM; BURN; CARDIOLOGIST; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROGRAPHY; EXPLANT; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; NERVE INJURY; PATHOLOGIST; POSTHUMOUS CARE; REIMPLANTATION; REVIEW; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SUDDEN DEATH; SWEDEN; TERMINAL DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

AUTOPSY; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DEVICE REMOVAL; EQUIPMENT REUSE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY;

EID: 84872199275     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pace.12023     Document Type: Review

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