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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… 
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Optimal Monophasic and Biphasic Waveforms. Introduction: The truncated exponential waveform from an implantable cardioverter… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
  • M. Kroll
  • 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
BackgroundIt is currently believed that defibrillation shocks act primarily by stimulating excitable myocardium to abolish wave… 
Review
1992
Review
1992
  • I. SingerD. Lang
  • 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
Certain biphasic waveforms require less energy to defibrillate than do monophasic pulses of equal duration, although the… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
According to the most commonly accepted hypothesis, ventricular defibrillation is produced by exciting cells in a critical mass… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
High-intensity electric shocks used for cardiac defibrillation produce arrhythmias, S-T segment changes, and a low percent… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Defibrillation/cardioversion thresholds were measured in 33 patients undergoing defibrillator implants. Each patient had a 12 cm2… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Electrical ventricular defibrillation of heavy subjects (over 100 kg body weight) is uncommon for the human or any animal species…