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… (More)
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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

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Direct current cardioversion

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Review
2010
Review
2010
Part 5: adult basic life support: 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care.
The critical lifesaving steps of BLS are ● Immediate Recognition and Activation of the emergency response system ● Early CPR and… (More)
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2010
Highly Cited
2010
An entirely subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.
 
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2009
Highly Cited
2009
Chest compression fraction determines survival in patients with out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation.
BACKGROUND Quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation contributes to cardiac arrest survival. The proportion of time in which chest… (More)
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2008
Highly Cited
2008
Summary of Distributed Resources Impact on Power Delivery Systems
Because traditional electric power distribution systems have been designed assuming the primary substation is the sole source of… (More)
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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… (More)
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2004
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2004
Advanced cardiac life support in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
BACKGROUND The Ontario Prehospital Advanced Life Support (OPALS) Study tested the incremental effect on the rate of survival… (More)
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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… (More)
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2002
Highly Cited
2002
A comparison of rate control and rhythm control in patients with recurrent persistent atrial fibrillation.
BACKGROUND Maintenance of sinus rhythm is the main therapeutic goal in patients with atrial fibrillation. However, recurrences of… (More)
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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… (More)
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1980
Highly Cited
1980
Dielectrophoresis: The Behavior of Neutral Matter in Nonuniform Electric Fields.Herbert A. Pohl
 
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