Upper limit of vulnerability determination during implantable cardioverter-defibrillator placement to minimize ventricular fibrillation inductions

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1445-1449

  Glikson, Michael ^a   Gurevitz, Osnat T ^a   Trusty, Jane M ^b   Sharma, Vinod ^c   Luria, David M ^a   Eldar, Michael ^a   Shen, Win Kuang ^b   Rea, Robert F ^a   Hammill, Stephen C ^b   Friedman, Paul A ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; ENERGY YIELD; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHOCK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; T WAVE;

AGED; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 9344267153     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.07.151     Document Type: Article

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