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Electric Countershock

Known as: Defibrillation, Electroversions, Cardiac, Cardiac Electroversions 
The conversion of one cardiac rhythm or electrical pattern to another, almost always from an abnormal to a normal one, by pharmacologic means using… 
National Institutes of Health

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Automated External DefibrillatorsBreaths^post cardioversion:NRat:Pt:Respiratory system:QnBreaths^pre cardioversion:NRat:Pt:Respiratory system:QnCDISC SDTM Procedure Terminology

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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

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Direct current cardioversion

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Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2015: Section 2. Adult basic life support and automated external defibrillation.
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
2012 focused update of the ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation: an update of the 2010 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation. Developed with the special…
ACCF : American College of Cardiology Foundation ACCP : American College of Chest Physicians ACS : acute coronary syndrome ACT… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Regional variation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest incidence and outcome.
CONTEXT The health and policy implications of regional variation in incidence and outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Review
2004
Review
2004
Cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation outcome reports: update and simplification of the Utstein templates for resuscitation registries: a statement for healthcare professionals from a task…
Outcome after cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation is dependent on critical interventions, particularly early… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Public-access defibrillation and survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
BACKGROUND The rate of survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is low. It is not known whether this rate will increase if… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Combined cardiac resynchronization and implantable cardioversion defibrillation in advanced chronic heart failure: the MIRACLE ICD Trial.
CONTEXT Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) through biventricular pacing is an effective treatment for heart failure (HF… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
A comparison of rate control and rhythm control in patients with recurrent persistent atrial fibrillation.
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Outcomes of rapid defibrillation by security officers after cardiac arrest in casinos.
BACKGROUND The use of automated external defibrillators by persons other than paramedics and emergency medical technicians is… 
Highly Cited
1956
Highly Cited
1956
Termination of ventricular fibrillation in man by externally applied electric countershock.
VENTRICULAR fibrillation is usually a rapidly fatal arrhythmia that may occur in cardiac patients, in any patient under… 
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