Bradycardia as a Rare Sign of Pulmonary Embolism: A Case Report of Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis in Cardiac Arrest Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound

We describe a case of cardiac arrest with pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis diagnosed by point-of-care ultrasound, which resulted in a favorable outcome. In this article, we have also delineated bradycardia as an atypical sign of pulmonary embolism and explained the potential mechanism b...

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Autores principales: Cheema, Muhammad Awais, Naeem, Salman, Alzarrad, Amir, Joy, Tony, Jarad, Haythem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9859651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36694525
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32798
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author Cheema, Muhammad Awais
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Joy, Tony
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description We describe a case of cardiac arrest with pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis diagnosed by point-of-care ultrasound, which resulted in a favorable outcome. In this article, we have also delineated bradycardia as an atypical sign of pulmonary embolism and explained the potential mechanism behind it.
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spelling pubmed-98596512023-01-23 Bradycardia as a Rare Sign of Pulmonary Embolism: A Case Report of Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis in Cardiac Arrest Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound Cheema, Muhammad Awais Naeem, Salman Alzarrad, Amir Joy, Tony Jarad, Haythem Cureus Emergency Medicine We describe a case of cardiac arrest with pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis diagnosed by point-of-care ultrasound, which resulted in a favorable outcome. In this article, we have also delineated bradycardia as an atypical sign of pulmonary embolism and explained the potential mechanism behind it. Cureus 2022-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9859651/ /pubmed/36694525 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32798 Text en Copyright © 2022, Cheema et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Emergency Medicine
Cheema, Muhammad Awais
Naeem, Salman
Alzarrad, Amir
Joy, Tony
Jarad, Haythem
Bradycardia as a Rare Sign of Pulmonary Embolism: A Case Report of Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis in Cardiac Arrest Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound
title Bradycardia as a Rare Sign of Pulmonary Embolism: A Case Report of Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis in Cardiac Arrest Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound
title_full Bradycardia as a Rare Sign of Pulmonary Embolism: A Case Report of Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis in Cardiac Arrest Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound
title_fullStr Bradycardia as a Rare Sign of Pulmonary Embolism: A Case Report of Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis in Cardiac Arrest Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound
title_full_unstemmed Bradycardia as a Rare Sign of Pulmonary Embolism: A Case Report of Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis in Cardiac Arrest Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound
title_short Bradycardia as a Rare Sign of Pulmonary Embolism: A Case Report of Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis in Cardiac Arrest Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound
title_sort bradycardia as a rare sign of pulmonary embolism: a case report of pulmonary embolism diagnosis in cardiac arrest using point-of-care ultrasound
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9859651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36694525
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32798
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