Choosing the Optimal Monophasic and Biphasic Waveforms for Ventricular Defibrillation

Long-term outcome with the automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator

1989 • 734 citations

Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach

1988 • 464 citations

The relationship between successful defibrillation and delivered energy in open-chest dogs: Reappraisal of the “defibrillation threshold” concept

1987 • 220 citations

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

1987 • 214 citations

Ventricular defibrillation using biphasic waveforms: The importance of phasic duration

1989 • 178 citations

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

1932 • 157 citations

Synchronized repolarization after defibrillation shocks. A possible component of the defibrillation process demonstrated by optical recordings in rabbit heart.

1992 • 152 citations

Mechanism of cardiac defibrillation in open-chest dogs with unipolar DC-coupled simultaneous activation and shock potential recordings.

1990 • 151 citations

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

1990 • 138 citations

Cardiac potential and potential gradient fields generated by single, combined, and sequential shocks during ventricular defibrillation.

1992 • 135 citations

A Minimal Model of the Single Capacitor Biphasic Defibrillation Waveform

1994 • 131 citations

Bioelectricity

1988 • 113 citations

A Minimal Model of the Monophasic Defibrillation Pulse

1993 • 105 citations

Strength-duration curves for trapezoidal waveforms of various tilts for transchest defibrillation in animals.

1978 • 102 citations

Three-dimensional potential gradient fields generated by intracardiac catheter and cutaneous patch electrodes.

1992 • 92 citations

Prolongation of repolarization time by electric field stimulation with monophasic and biphasic shocks in open-chest dogs.

1991 • 87 citations

The Fundamental Law of Electrostimulation and its Application to Defibrillation

1990 • 76 citations

Benefits of implantable defibrillators are overestimated by sudden death rates and better represented by the total arrhythmic death rate

1991 • 71 citations

Amplitude-duration relation for direct ventricular defibrillation with rectangular current pulses

1975 • 59 citations

Tissue stimulation: Theoretical considerations and practical applications

1985 • 59 citations

Mechanisms of Defibrillation for Monophasic and Biphasic Waveforms

1994 • 58 citations

Bipolar catheter defibrillation in dogs using trapezoidal waveforms of various tilts

1980 • 56 citations

Strength‐Duration Curves of Fixed Pulse Width Variable Tilt Truncated Exponential Waveforms for Nonthoracomy Internal Defibrillation in Dogs

1988 • 47 citations

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

1932 • 43 citations

The Defibrillation Success Rate Versus Energy Relationship: Part I‐Curve Fitting and the Most Efficient Defibrillation Energy

1990 • 42 citations

Comparison of frequency of aggravation of ventricular tachyarrhythmias after implantation of automatic defibrillators using epicardial versus nonthoracotomy lead systems

1993 • 39 citations

Is the Second Phase of a Biphasic Defibrillation Waveform the Defihrillating Phase?

1993 • 36 citations

Ability of the Lapicque and Blair strength-duration curves to fit experimentally obtained data from the dog heart

1989 • 35 citations

Efficacy and safety of defibrillation with rectangular waves of 2− to 20-milliseconds duration

1983 • 26 citations

Effect of Intrastimulus Polarity Reversal on Electric Field Stimulation Thresholds in Frog and Rabbit Myocardium

1992 • 26 citations

The Characterization of Human Transmyocardial Impedance during Implantation of the Automatic Internal Cardioverter Defibrillator

1986 • 19 citations