Response to programmed ventricular stimulation and clinical outcome in cardiac arrest survivors receiving randomised assignment to implantable cardioverter defibrillator or antiarrhythmic drug therapy | Zendy

Riccardo Cappato | Zendy

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Response to programmed ventricular stimulation and clinical outcome in cardiac arrest survivors receiving randomised assignment to implantable cardioverter defibrillator or antiarrhythmic drug therapy

Author(s) -

Riccardo Cappato

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

european heart journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.336

H-Index - 293

eISSN - 1522-9645

pISSN - 0195-668X

DOI - 10.1016/j.ehj.2004.01.009

Subject(s) - medicine , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , hazard ratio , sudden cardiac death , cardiology , prospective cohort study , ventricular fibrillation , confidence interval

Using a prospective design which randomly assigned implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) versus antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs), we investigated the usefulness of programmed ventricular stimulation (PVS) for prediction of outcome and therapy effectiveness in cardiac arrest (CA) survivors.

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