PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT FOLLOWING OPEN-HEART SURGERY
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Following Open Heart Surgery
A technique is described to control recurrent or sustained supraventricular tachycardia associated with rapid ventricular rates following open heart surgery. The technique utilizes a pair of temporarily implanted atrial epicardial wire electrodes to pace the heart. In one group of patients with recurrent atrial flutter and 2:1 A-V conduction, continuous rapid atrial pacing at 450 beats/min prod...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
سال: 1966
ISSN: 0022-3018
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-196610000-00007