Automatic external defibrillators: Importance of field testing to evaluate performance
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An animal model for testing automatic defibrillators.
A promising therapy for ventricular fibrillation--a life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia--is implantation of an automatic defibrillator. A critical component of such a device is the system that detects the presence of ventricular fibrillation. Automatic systems for detecting ventricular fibrillation have been tested with arrhythmias produced by electric shocks in normal canine hearts, but have n...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(87)80128-6