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Acute coma, then Sudden PEA arrest in front of paramedics, with STEMI?

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The patient was unconscious BEFORE the cardiac arrest, at the same time that she had strong pulses. Therefore, cardiac arrest is NOT the etiology of the coma. Moreover, when someone has immediate resuscitation of an arrest witnessed by paramedics, they rarely have a GCS of 3 (deep coma).

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