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...
| Published in: | Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology Vol. 10; no. 3; pp. 579 - 583 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May1987
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