Use of a wearable defibrillator in terminating tachyarrhythmias in patients at high risk for sudden death: results of the WEARIT/BIROAD.

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Published in Pacing Clin Electrophysiol on January 01, 2004

Authors

Arthur M Feldman1, Helmut Klein, Patrick Tchou, Srinivas Murali, W Jackson Hall, Donna Mancini, John Boehmer, Mark Harvey, M Stephen Heilman, Steven J Szymkiewicz, Arthur J Moss, WEARIT investigators and coordinators, BIROAD investigators and coordinators

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107-5083, USA. arthur.feldman@jefferson.edu

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