Present guidelines for device implantation: Clinical considerations and clinical challenges from pacing, implantable cardiac defibrillator, and cardiac resynchronization therapy

Circulation

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 383-394

  Poole, Jeanne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Death; Defibrillators; Electric countershock; Electrophysiology; Implantable; Sudden; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; PLACEBO;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE REGISTRY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEART ARREST; HEART FAILURE; HEART PACING; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; MEDICARE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REIMBURSEMENT; REVIEW; SECONDARY PREVENTION;

DEATH, SUDDEN; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; TACHYCARDIA;

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOLOGY; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 84893086563     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.000762     Document Type: Review

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