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M. Mirowski, MD; Morton M. Mower, MD; William S. Staewen; Bernard Tabatznik, MD; Albert I. Mendeloff, MD
Baltimore

JAMA. 1971;217(7):964.

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To the Editor.—

In "Defibrillatory Treatment of Exertional Cardiac Arrest in Coronary Disease" (216: 653, 1971), Bruce and Kluge wrote...it is of interest to note that a laboratory model of an automatic standby defibrillator has been developed and successfully tested on dogs. With further bioengineering improvements, one might hope that a satisfactory clinical approach analogous to a transvenous pacemaker for treatment of heart block will become available for selected patients at the greatest risk for ventricular fibrillation. Such a device might well protect the isolated patient remote from emergency facilities.

If a reader were sufficiently intrigued by this statement to want to look further into the matter, he would be disappointed to find that Bruce and Kluge have failed to include a reference to the original report, commented upon in an EDITORIAL¹ (213: 615, 1970). We may be biased in our attitude, but think that such an extensive discussion of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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