Abstract
A promising therapy for ventricular fibrillation--a life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia--is the implantation of an automatic defibrillator. A critical component of such a device is the system that detects the presence of ventricular fibrillation. Automatic systems for detecting ventricular fibrillation have been tested with arrhythmias produced by electric shocks in normal canine hearts, but have not been tested with spontaneous arrhythmias in hyperirritable hearts. We have developed an animal model to create arrhythmias without electrical stimulation and have used it to test our automatic defibrillator. This model permits evaluation of both reliability to diagnose ventricular fibrillation and reliability to reject other tachyarrhythmias.
Keywords
animal testing; automatic defibrillator; strophanthidin-toxic hearts; tachyarrhythmias; ventricular fibrillation detection
Date of this Version
1980
Recommended Citation
Bourland, J D.; Babbs, Charles F.; Tacker, W A.; and Geddes, L A., "An animal model for testing automatic defibrillators" (1980). Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications. Paper 99.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/bmepubs/99
Comments
This is the author accepted manuscript of Bourland J.D., Babbs C.F., Tacker W.A., Geddes L.A., An animal model for testing automatic defibrillators, Medical Instrumentation 14, 15-17, 1980. Copyright Elsevier, it is made available here CC-BY-NC-ND, and the version of record is available through the publisher http://www.sciencedirect.com/.