Pacing After Shocks Stronger Than the Upper Limit of Vulnerability
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Pacing after shocks stronger than the upper limit of vulnerability: impact on fibrillation induction.
BACKGROUND After upper-limit-of-vulnerability (ULV) shocks of the same strength and coupling interval (CI) during the T wave, (1) the epicardial activation pattern (EAP) for the first postshock cycle is indistinguishable between shocks that do (VF) and do not (NoVF) induce ventricular fibrillation (VF) and (2) >/=3 cycles in rapid succession always occur during VF but not during NoVF episodes. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.101.11.1337