Patient Management Pre- and Postablation

Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: The State of the Art Based on the Venicechart International Consensus Document

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 34-40

  Kuck, Karl Heinz ^a   Shah, Dipen ^b   Camm, Anton John ^c   Feld, Gregory ^d   Kottkamp, Hans ^e   Lau, Chu Pak ^f   Reddy, Vivek ^g   Wilber, David ^h  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e KLINIK HIRSLANDEN   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^g MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Biplane fluoroscopy; Echocardiography; Intracardiac pressures; Patient management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889426572     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470692646.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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