Patient-tailored implantable cardioverter defibrillator testing using the upper limit of vulnerability: the TULIP protocol
Author(s) -
Bernd Lemke,
Thomas Lawo,
Markus Zarse,
Andrzej Lubiński,
U. Kreutzer,
Jakob C. Mueller,
Andreas Schuchert,
S. Mitzenheim,
DEJAN DANILOVIC,
Thomas Deneke
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
ep europace
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.119
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1532-2092
pISSN - 1099-5129
DOI - 10.1093/europace/eun136
Subject(s) - defibrillation , medicine , defibrillation threshold , ventricular fibrillation , implantable cardioverter defibrillator , cardiology
We evaluated the feasibility of the TULIP (Threshold test using Upper Limit during ImPlantation) protocol, which was designed to provide a confirmed, low defibrillation energy value during implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation with only two induced ventricular fibrillation (VF) episodes.
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