Multicenter study of principles-based waveforms for external defibrillation

Ambulatory sudden cardiac death: Mechanisms of production of fatal arrhythmia on the basis of data from 157 cases

1989 • 1,005 citations

Cardiac arrest and resuscitation: A tale of 29 cities

1990 • 916 citations

Use of the Automatic External Defibrillator in the Management of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

1988 • 482 citations

Sudden coronary death in the United States: 1980-1985.

1989 • 348 citations

High Discharge Survival Rate After Out-of-Hospital Ventricular Fibrillation With Rapid Defibrillation by Police and Paramedics

1996 • 333 citations

ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction:Executive Summary

1996 • 281 citations

Seven years’ experience with early defibrillation by police and paramedics in an emergency medical services system

1998 • 280 citations

High-Energy Defibrillation Increases the Severity of Postresuscitation Myocardial Dysfunction

1997 • 274 citations

Ventricular Defibrillation — A Comparative Trial Using 175-J and 320-J Shocks

1982 • 238 citations

Improved neurologic recovery and survival after early defibrillation.

1984 • 231 citations

Energy, current, and success in defibrillation and cardioversion: clinical studies using an automated impedance-based method of energy adjustment.

1988 • 227 citations

A prospective randomized evaluation of biphasic versus monophasic waveform pulses on defibrillation efficacy in humans

1989 • 226 citations

Improved defibrillation thresholds with large contoured epicardial electrodes and biphasic waveforms.

1987 • 214 citations

Improved low energy defibrillation efficacy in man with the use of a biphasic truncated exponential waveform

1989 • 211 citations

Multicenter Comparison of Truncated Biphasic Shocks and Standard Damped Sine Wave Monophasic Shocks for Transthoracic Ventricular Defibrillation

1996 • 201 citations

Automatic external defibrillators used by emergency medical technicians. A controlled clinical trial

1987 • 164 citations

Therapeutic indices for transchest defibrillator shocks: Effective, damaging, and lethal electrical doses

1980 • 158 citations

ON THE INTENSITY-TIME RELATIONS FOR STIMULATION BY ELECTRIC CURRENTS. I

1932 • 157 citations

Early defibrillation by police: Initial experience with measurement of critical time intervals and patient outcome

1994 • 145 citations

Strength-duration and probability of success curves for defibrillation with biphasic waveforms.

1990 • 138 citations

Advance prediction of transthoracic impedance in human defibrillation and cardioversion: importance of impedance in determining the success of low-energy shocks.

1984 • 135 citations

A Minimal Model of the Single Capacitor Biphasic Defibrillation Waveform

1994 • 131 citations

Low‐Energy Impedance‐Compensating Biphasic Waveforms Terminate Ventricular Fibrillation at High Rates in Victims of Out‐of‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest

1997 • 130 citations

Relation between transcardiac and transthoracic current during defibrillation in humans.

1990 • 130 citations

Comparison of monophasic and biphasic defibrillating pulse waveforms for transthoracic cardioversion

1995 • 122 citations

Automatic External Defibrillators Used by Emergency Medical Technicians

1987 • 109 citations

Decreased defibrillator-induced dysfunction with biphasic rectangular waveforms

1984 • 108 citations

Choosing the Optimal Monophasic and Biphasic Waveforms for Ventricular Defibrillation

1995 • 106 citations

A Minimal Model of the Monophasic Defibrillation Pulse

1993 • 105 citations

Treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with a low-energy impedance-compensating biphasic waveform automatic external defibrillator. The LIFE Investigators.

1999 • 103 citations

Truncated Biphasic Pulses for Transthoracic Defibrillation

1995 • 102 citations

Comparison of the internal defibrillation thresholds for monophasic and double and single capacitor biphasic waveforms

1989 • 100 citations

Relation between shock-related myocardial injury and defibrillation efficacy of monophasic and biphasic shocks in a canine model.

1994 • 88 citations

Optimization of biphasic waveforms for human nonthoracotomy defibrillation.

1993 • 88 citations

Comparative efficacy of monophasic and biphasic truncated exponential shocks for nonthoracotomy internal defibrillation in dogs

1988 • 87 citations

Optimal Truncation of Defibrillation Pulses

1995 • 73 citations

Charge-Burping Theory Correctly Predicts Optimal Ratios of Phase Duration for Biphasic Defibrillation Waveforms

1996 • 72 citations

Mechanisms of Defibrillation for Monophasic and Biphasic Waveforms

1994 • 58 citations

Effect of capacitor size and pathway resistance on defibrillation threshold for implantable defibrillators.

1994 • 58 citations

Intrathoracic current flow during transthoracic defibrillation in dogs. Transcardiac current fraction.

1990 • 52 citations

Early defibrillation by EMTs: the Brussels experience

1994 • 51 citations

A Conceptual Basis for Defibrillation Waveforms

1996 • 50 citations

Application of Models of Defibrillation to Human Defibrillation Data

1997 • 47 citations

Safety Evaluation and Confidence Intervals When the Number of Observed Events Is Small or Zero

1997 • 44 citations

ON THE INTENSITY-TIME RELATIONS FOR STIMULATION BY ELECTRIC CURRENTS. II

1932 • 43 citations

Relative Efficacy of Monophasic and Biphasic Waveforms for Transthoracic Defibrillation After Short and Long Durations of Ventricular Fibrillation

1998 • 42 citations

The influence of ventricular fibrillation duration on defibrillation efficacy using biphasic waveforms in humans

1999 • 40 citations

Optimizing Defibrillation Through Improved Waveforms

1995 • 40 citations

What is a “save”?: Outcome measures in clinical evaluations of automatic external defibrillators

1985 • 29 citations

Truncated exponential versus damped sinusoidal waveform shocks for transthoracic defibrillation

1996 • 27 citations

Simultaneous Biphasic Shocks Enhance Efficacy of Endocardial Cardioversion Defibrillation in Man

1991 • 26 citations

Influence of External Defibrillator Electrode Polarity on Cardiac Resuscitation

1993 • 22 citations

Optimal Small-Capacitor Biphasic Waveform for External Defibrillation

1998 • 21 citations

Ventricular defibrillation — A comparative trial using 175-J and 320-J shocks

1983 • 20 citations

Cardiac injury with damped sine and trapezoidal defibrillator waveforms

1989 • 15 citations

Sawtooth First Phase Biphasic Defibrillation Waveform

1997 • 13 citations

Optimized First Phase Tilt in “Parallel‐Series” Biphasic Waveform

1997 • 11 citations

Automated external defibrillators: design considerations.

1997 • 5 citations

In-Field Comparison between Fully Automatic and Semi-Automatic Defibrillators

1991 • 3 citations