Spontaneous Termination of Ventricular Fibrillation: Is Organization Required?

Ventricular fibrillation is a life-threatening arrhythmia that can result in sudden cardiac death and almost always requires emergency electrical defibrillation. This paper presents a unique case of a 74-year-old woman with spontaneous termination of a 2-min 13-s ventricular fibrillation episode wit...

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Autores principales: Vogt, Braden, Kwok, Michael, Wu, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34317692
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.04.022
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description Ventricular fibrillation is a life-threatening arrhythmia that can result in sudden cardiac death and almost always requires emergency electrical defibrillation. This paper presents a unique case of a 74-year-old woman with spontaneous termination of a 2-min 13-s ventricular fibrillation episode without organization before termination. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.)
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spelling pubmed-83114582021-07-26 Spontaneous Termination of Ventricular Fibrillation: Is Organization Required? Vogt, Braden Kwok, Michael Wu, Michael JACC Case Rep Case Report Ventricular fibrillation is a life-threatening arrhythmia that can result in sudden cardiac death and almost always requires emergency electrical defibrillation. This paper presents a unique case of a 74-year-old woman with spontaneous termination of a 2-min 13-s ventricular fibrillation episode without organization before termination. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.) Elsevier 2021-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8311458/ /pubmed/34317692 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.04.022 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Spontaneous Termination of Ventricular Fibrillation: Is Organization Required?
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title_full Spontaneous Termination of Ventricular Fibrillation: Is Organization Required?
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title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous Termination of Ventricular Fibrillation: Is Organization Required?
title_short Spontaneous Termination of Ventricular Fibrillation: Is Organization Required?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34317692
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.04.022
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