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A Minimal Model of the Single Capacitor Biphasic Defibrillation Waveform

Mark W. Kroll

Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology · 1994 · 127 citations · 50 references

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Abstract

The effectiveness of the single capacitor biphasic waveform may be explained by the second phase "burping" of the deleterious residual charge of the first phase that, in turn, reduces the synchronization requirement and the amplitude requirements of the first phase.

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