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Case Report: Extended cardiopulmonary resuscitation in sudden cardiac arrest after acute myocardial infarction

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) mostly occurs in crowded public places outside hospitals, such as public sports facilities, airports, railway stations, subway stations, and shopping malls. ECMO support therapy for patients with cardiac arrest can be considered when economic conditions permit.

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Case Report: Sudden very late-onset near fatal PD1 inhibitor-associated myocarditis with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest after >2.5 years of pembrolizumab treatment

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

years and was admitted after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation. After successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the initial diagnostic work-up showed elevated cardiac enzymes and a limited left-ventricular ejection fraction, while coronary angiography did not show relevant stenosis.

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Prehospital "Altered mental status and hypotension due to probable DKA" (everyone must know this ECG diagnosis)

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This is obviously severe hyperkalemia and the patient is near cardiac arrest. There was no IV access, so we obtained intraosseous (IO) access, but she arrested before we could give her all the calcium. Here is the transesophageal echo (TEE) at the same time as this 2nd ECG: Excellent LV Function. The medics had no idea.

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Magnetocardiography at rest predicts cardiac death in patients with acute chest pain

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Introduction Sudden cardiac arrest is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and remains a major public health problem for which better non-invasive prediction tools are needed. The individual relationship between fatal arrhythmias and cardiac function abnormalities in predicting cardiac death risk has rarely been explored.

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What are treatment options for this rhythm, when all else fails?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Cardiac function is poor, with akinesis of the LAD territory. Troponin T peaked at 38,398 ng/L ( = a very large myocardial infarction, but not massive-- thanks to the pre-PCI spontaneous reperfusion, and rapid internvention!! ). The echo images below were obtained on the day of presentation after PCI.