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Catheter Ablation in Combination With Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Atrial Fibrillation
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Catheter Ablation in Combination With Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Atrial Fibrillation

Published on: February 26, 2013

Best evidence topic report: paddle position in emergency cardioversion of atrial fibrillation

Katherine Potier de la Morandiere1, Henry Morriss

  • 1Department of Emergency Medicine, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL, UK.

Emergency Medicine Journal : EMJ
|December 22, 2004
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