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Emphasis on Use of Electrical Pacing

Doris J.W. Escher, MD; Seymour Furman, MD

JAMA. 1970;214(11):2028-2034.

Abstract
Pacemakers have special value in the primary treatment of major arrhythmias. With the availability of cardiac pacemakers and cardioversion with direct-current countershock, indications for medical therapy of both bradycardias and tachycardias have been revised.

Author Affiliations
From the Cardiology Service, Division of Medicine and Cardiothoracic Service, Division of Surgery, Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, Bronx, NY.; Max Harry Weil, MD, and Herbert Shubin, MD, Shock Research Unit, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, are co-editors of the Critical Care Medicine series.

Footnotes
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