• Am. J. Cardiol. · Mar 1996

    Five-year experience with implantable defibrillators in children.

    • R M Hamilton, P Dorian, R M Gow, and W G Williams.
    • Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario.
    • Am. J. Cardiol. 1996 Mar 1; 77 (7): 524-6.

    AbstractCardioverter-defibrillators were implanted in children aged 4 to 16 years over a 5-year period with no mortality and eventual clinically appropriate shocks in 6 of 11 patients. Both transvenous and epicardial implantable cardioverter-defibrillators were safe and effective in children resuscitated from sudden death or at high risk for sudden death.

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