Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 8 , Pages 950-955 , August 2010

Circadian variation of human ventricular fibrillation dominant frequency

  • Philip Langley

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7DN, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Medical Physics Department, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7DN, UK. Tel.: +44 0 1912231664; fax: +44 0 1912130290.
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  • Guy A. MacGowan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
    • ,
  • Alan Murray

      Affiliations

    • Medical Physics Department, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Received 27 January 2010 ,Revised 2 March 2010 ,Accepted 14 March 2010.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the summary of this article appears as Appendix in the online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.03.026.

PII: S0300-9572(10)00182-6

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.03.026

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