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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
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Choosing the Optimal Monophasic and Biphasic Waveforms for Ventricular Defibrillation
Optimal Monophasic and Biphasic Waveforms. Introduction: The truncated exponential waveform from an implantable cardioverter… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
A Minimal Model of the Single Capacitor Biphasic Defibrillation Waveform
  • M. Kroll
  • Pacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE
  • 1994
  • Corpus ID: 40513494
A quantita tive model of the single capacitor biphasic defibrillation wave form is proposed. The primary hypothesis of this model… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Synchronized Repolarization After Defibrillation Shocks: A Possible Component of the Defibrillation Process Demonstrated by Optical Recordings in Rabbit Heart
BackgroundIt is currently believed that defibrillation shocks act primarily by stimulating excitable myocardium to abolish wave… 
Review
1992
Review
1992
Defibrillation Threshold: Clinical Utility and Therapeutic Implications
  • I. SingerD. Lang
  • Pacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE
  • 1992
  • Corpus ID: 43223132
Termination of ventricular fibrillation (VF) by passing electrical current through the chest was first described by Kouwenhoven… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Strength-duration and probability of success curves for defibrillation with biphasic waveforms.
Certain biphasic waveforms require less energy to defibrillate than do monophasic pulses of equal duration, although the… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Improved cardiac cell excitation with symmetrical biphasic defibrillator waveforms.
According to the most commonly accepted hypothesis, ventricular defibrillation is produced by exciting cells in a critical mass… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Decreased defibrillator-induced dysfunction with biphasic rectangular waveforms.
High-intensity electric shocks used for cardiac defibrillation produce arrhythmias, S-T segment changes, and a low percent… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Measurement of cardioversion/defibrillation thresholds in man by a truncated exponential waveform and an apical patch-superior vena caval spring electrode configuration.
Defibrillation/cardioversion thresholds were measured in 33 patients undergoing defibrillator implants. Each patient had a 12 cm2… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Clinical transvenous cardioversion of recurrent life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias: low energy synchronized cardioversion of ventricular tachycardia and termination of ventricular…
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Electrical dose for ventricular defibrillation of large and small animals using precordial electrodes.
Electrical ventricular defibrillation of heavy subjects (over 100 kg body weight) is uncommon for the human or any animal species… 
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