Cardiac electrical stimulators that apply brief high-voltage electroshocks to the HEART. These stimulators are used to restore normal rhythm and contractile function in hearts of patients who are experiencing VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION or ventricular tachycardia (TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR) that is not accompanied by a palpable PULSE. Some defibrillators may also be used to correct certain noncritical dysrhythmias (called synchronized defibrillation or CARDIOVERSION), using relatively low-level discharges synchronized to the patient's ECG waveform. (UMDNS, 2003)
Cardiac electrical stimulators that apply brief high-voltage electroshocks to the HEART. These stimulators are used to restore normal rhythm and contractile function in hearts of patients who are experiencing VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION or ventricular tachycardia (TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR) that is not accompanied by a palpable PULSE. Some defibrillators may also be used to correct certain noncritical dysrhythmias (called synchronized defibrillation or CARDIOVERSION), using relatively low-level discharges synchronized to the patient's ECG waveform. (UMDNS, 2003)
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Defibrillators -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. : Automated external defibrillators : a step by step training guide to the use of AEDs in cardiac arrest / by David Natoli & John Lippmann
2002
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Defibrillators -- History : Frank Pantridge MC : Japanese prisoner of war and inventor of the portable defibrillator / Cecil Lowry
Defibrillators, Implantable -- history : Machines in our hearts : the cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care / Kirk Jeffrey
2001
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Defibrillators, Implantable -- psychology : Psychological, emotional, social and cognitive aspects of implantable cardiac devices / Riccardo Proietti, Gian Mauro Manzoni, Giada Pietrabissa, Gianluca Castelnuovo, editors
