Electrocardiogram artifact caused by rigors mimicking narrow complex tachycardia: a case report

BACKGROUND: The electrocardiogram (ECG) is useful in the diagnosis of cardiac and non-cardiac conditions. Rigors due to shivering can cause electrocardiogram artifacts mimicking various cardiac rhythm abnormalities. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe an 80-year-old Sri Lankan man with an abnormal electr...

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Autores principales: Matthias, Anne Thushara, Indrakumar, Jegarajah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3918176/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24495378
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-80
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description BACKGROUND: The electrocardiogram (ECG) is useful in the diagnosis of cardiac and non-cardiac conditions. Rigors due to shivering can cause electrocardiogram artifacts mimicking various cardiac rhythm abnormalities. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe an 80-year-old Sri Lankan man with an abnormal electrocardiogram mimicking narrow complex tachycardia during the immediate post-operative period. Electrocardiogram changes caused by muscle tremor during rigors could mimic a narrow complex tachycardia. CONCLUSIONS: Identification of muscle tremor as a cause of electrocardiogram artifact can avoid unnecessary pharmacological and non-pharmacological intervention to prevent arrhythmias.
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spelling pubmed-39181762014-02-09 Electrocardiogram artifact caused by rigors mimicking narrow complex tachycardia: a case report Matthias, Anne Thushara Indrakumar, Jegarajah BMC Res Notes Case Report BACKGROUND: The electrocardiogram (ECG) is useful in the diagnosis of cardiac and non-cardiac conditions. Rigors due to shivering can cause electrocardiogram artifacts mimicking various cardiac rhythm abnormalities. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe an 80-year-old Sri Lankan man with an abnormal electrocardiogram mimicking narrow complex tachycardia during the immediate post-operative period. Electrocardiogram changes caused by muscle tremor during rigors could mimic a narrow complex tachycardia. CONCLUSIONS: Identification of muscle tremor as a cause of electrocardiogram artifact can avoid unnecessary pharmacological and non-pharmacological intervention to prevent arrhythmias. BioMed Central 2014-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3918176/ /pubmed/24495378 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-80 Text en Copyright © 2014 Matthias and Indrakumar; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Electrocardiogram artifact caused by rigors mimicking narrow complex tachycardia: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Electrocardiogram artifact caused by rigors mimicking narrow complex tachycardia: a case report
title_short Electrocardiogram artifact caused by rigors mimicking narrow complex tachycardia: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3918176/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-80
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