Aplicación de modelos de desfibrilación a los datos de desfibrilación humana: implicaciones para la optimización de

C D Swerdlow1, J E Brewer, R M Kass

  • 1Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, 90048, USA. swerdlow@ucla.edu

Circulation
|December 31, 1997
PubMed
Resumen

Los modelos teóricos predicen con precisión la capacidad del desfibrilador cardioverter implantable (ICD) utilizando parámetros de tiempo del músculo cardíaco humano. La función óptima del ICD y el umbral de desfibrilación reducido (DFT) se pueden lograr con condensadores de aproximadamente 90 microfarad.

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