Tachycardia detection performance of implantable loop recorders: Results from a large 'real-life' patient cohort and patients with induced ventricular arrhythmias

Europace

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1215-1222

  Volosin, Kent ^a   Stadler, Robert W ^b   Wyszynski, Ryan ^b   Kirchhof, Paulus ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Arrhythmia detection; ECG monitoring; Implantable loop recorder; Ventricular fibrillation; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIAC MONITOR; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ELECTRODE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 84880964400     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eut036     Document Type: Article

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