Bradycardia Defibrillator Stent 
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
SEPTEMBER 3, 2023
VF was refractory to amiodarone, lidocaine, double-sequential defibrillation, esmolol, etc. He has a h/o of 3 vessel disease and stents and his pain has been on and off for days. Then the patient would have been taken to the critical care area with a defibrillator at his side while waiting for the cath lab to be ready.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
JUNE 19, 2023
Soon afterward, the patient’s symptoms return along with lightheadedness, bradycardia, and hypotension. The patient has also developed sinus bradycardia, which may result from right coronary artery ischemia to the SA node. Two stents were placed with resultant TIMI 3 flow.
EMS 12-Lead
MARCH 19, 2023
He denied any known medical history, specifically: coronary artery disease, hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, heart failure, myocardial infarction, or any prior PCI/stent. Despite immediate chest compressions, and multiple rounds of defibrillation, he could not be resuscitated. No appreciable skin pallor.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
APRIL 8, 2016
There is also bradycardia. Bradycardia puts patients at risk for "pause-dependent" Torsades de Pointes. Torsades in acquired long QT is much more likely in bradycardia because the QT interval following a long pause is longer still. This was stented. The corrected QT interval is extremely long, about 500 ms.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
MARCH 8, 2025
Within ten minutes, she developed bradycardia, hypotension, and ST changes on monitor. Bradycardia and heart block are very common in RCA OMI. After stent deployment, we often see improvement in the ST-T within seconds or minutes. Here is the final angiogram following placement of a stent in the ostial RCA.
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