Automatic implantable cardioverter/defibrillator: inadvertent discharges during permanent pacemaker magnet tests.

A patient with an automatic impIantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD)(R) received two inadvertent shacks when a magnet was placed over the pacer during a routine permanent pacer check. Analysis of the rhythm strip suggested that both patients' QRS complexes (133 beats/minute) and asynchronous pa...

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Published in:Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology Vol. 10; no. 3; pp. 579 - 583
Main Authors: Kim SG, Furman S, Matos JA, Waspe LE, Brodman R, Fisher JD
Format: Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell May1987
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