A Comparison of Antiarrhythmic-Drug Therapy with Implantable Defibrillators in Patients Resuscitated from Near-Fatal Ventricular Arrhythmias
- 27 November 1997
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 337 (22), 1576-1584
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199711273372202
Abstract
Patients who survive life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias are at risk for recurrent arrhythmias. They can be treated with either an implantable cardioverter–defibrillator or antiarrhythmic drugs, but the relative efficacy of these two treatment strategies is unknown.Keywords
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