Insights into defibrillator shocks: what OPTION teaches us

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¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. Electronic address: kellenbogen@mcvh-vcu.edu.
² Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.

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Kenneth A Ellenbogen et al. JACC Heart Fail. 2014 Dec.

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. 2014 Dec;2(6):620-2.

doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2014.06.006. Epub 2014 Oct 1.

¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. Electronic address: kellenbogen@mcvh-vcu.edu.
² Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.

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Keywords: defibrillation; pacing; shock; survival; tachyarrhythmias.

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Reduced risk for inappropriate implantable cardioverter-defibrillator shocks with dual-chamber therapy compared with single-chamber therapy: results of the randomized OPTION study.
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