A Serious Cause of Panic Attack

We report on a case of a patient with atrial fibrillation in the setting of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. The patient underwent synchronized electrical cardioversion, typically considered safe and effective, which resulted in a dangerous complication for the patient (degeneration into ventricular...

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Autores principales: O'Connell, Michael, Bernard, Aaron
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3542895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23326712
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/393275
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description We report on a case of a patient with atrial fibrillation in the setting of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. The patient underwent synchronized electrical cardioversion, typically considered safe and effective, which resulted in a dangerous complication for the patient (degeneration into ventricular fibrillation). Discussion of common rhythm disturbances in WPW and management strategies are reviewed.
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spelling pubmed-35428952013-01-16 A Serious Cause of Panic Attack O'Connell, Michael Bernard, Aaron Case Rep Emerg Med Case Report We report on a case of a patient with atrial fibrillation in the setting of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. The patient underwent synchronized electrical cardioversion, typically considered safe and effective, which resulted in a dangerous complication for the patient (degeneration into ventricular fibrillation). Discussion of common rhythm disturbances in WPW and management strategies are reviewed. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3542895/ /pubmed/23326712 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/393275 Text en Copyright © 2012 M. O'Connell and A. Bernard. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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