Defibrillators Don't Deliver in Dialysis

Rachel Kaplan^{1

2}, Rod Passman^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (R.K., R.P.).
² Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL (R.K., R.P.).

Editorial

Rachel Kaplan et al. Circulation. 2019.

. 2019 Jun 4;139(23):2639-2641.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.040504. Epub 2019 Jun 3.

Rachel Kaplan^{1

2}, Rod Passman^{1

2}

¹ Division of Cardiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (R.K., R.P.).
² Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL (R.K., R.P.).

No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; death, sudden, cardiac; defibrillators, implantable; dialysis; mortality.

Comment on

Prophylactic Use of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators in the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death in Dialysis Patients.
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