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Ventricular fibrillation undersensing to calculate a safety threshold for baseline rhythm R-wave amplitudes
David Filgueiras-Rama1, José María Lillo-Castellano2, Jorge G Quintanilla1
1Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Myocardial Pathophysiology Area, Madrid, Spain; CIBER de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Madrid, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos (IdISSC), Cardiovascular Institute, Madrid, Spain.
Journal of Electrocardiology
|October 15, 2018
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