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Term: defibrillation
Synonym1: cardioversion
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Definition: suppression of auricular or ventricular fibrillation using an electric shock delivered by a defibrillator

NOTE – This term is not used to designate the interruption of atrial fibrillation by means of drugs.


Publication date:1998-02
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