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Who Benefits From a Defibrillator—Balancing the Risk of Sudden Versus Non-sudden Death

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Treatment with a defibrillator can reduce the risk of sudden death by terminating ventricular arrhythmias. The identification of patient groups in whom this function reduces overall mortality is challenging. In this review, we summarise the evidence for who benefits from a defibri...

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Autores principales: Beggs, Simon A. S., Gardner, Roy S., McMurray, John J. V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6267371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30413991
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11897-018-0416-6