Keywords
- Ventricular Fibrillation
- Cardiac Arrhythmia
- Cardiac Massage
- Elective Cardioversion
- Automatic External Defibrillator
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Crick, J.C. (1988). External electrical defibrillation and cardioversion. In: Camm, A.J., Ward, D.E. (eds) Clinical Aspects of Cardiac Arrhythmias. Current Status of Clinical Cardiology, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1289-2_16
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