Complete Ventricular Asystole in a Patient with Altered Mental Status

Patients who present with recurrent syncope are at risk for having underlying conduction disease, which may worsen if not promptly recognized and treated. We describe a patient who initially presented to a Mexican clinic with recurrent syncope and an electrocardiogram that showed complete heart bloc...

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Autores principales: Zanoni, Stephen, Platt, Gerald, Carstairs, Shaun, Hernandez, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2014
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Diagnostic Acumen
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3966435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24672602
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2013.10.18884
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description Patients who present with recurrent syncope are at risk for having underlying conduction disease, which may worsen if not promptly recognized and treated. We describe a patient who initially presented to a Mexican clinic with recurrent syncope and an electrocardiogram that showed complete heart block. After being transferred to our emergency department, he deteriorated into complete ventricular asystole with preserved atrial function and required placement of a transvenous cardiac pacemaker.
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spelling pubmed-39664352014-03-26 Complete Ventricular Asystole in a Patient with Altered Mental Status Zanoni, Stephen Platt, Gerald Carstairs, Shaun Hernandez, Mark West J Emerg Med Diagnostic Acumen Patients who present with recurrent syncope are at risk for having underlying conduction disease, which may worsen if not promptly recognized and treated. We describe a patient who initially presented to a Mexican clinic with recurrent syncope and an electrocardiogram that showed complete heart block. After being transferred to our emergency department, he deteriorated into complete ventricular asystole with preserved atrial function and required placement of a transvenous cardiac pacemaker. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2014-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3966435/ /pubmed/24672602 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2013.10.18884 Text en Copyright © 2014 the authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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