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Europace 2001 3(4):275-277; doi:10.1053/eupc.2001.0195
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EDITORIAL

Is there an optimal capacitance for defibrillation?

R. E. Ideker, A. E. Epstein and G. P. Walcott

Departments of Medicine, Physiology, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A.

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