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Patient is informed of her husband's death: is it OMI or it stress cardiomyopathy?

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Several 200 J shocks did not terminate the VF, so a second defibrillator was applied for double sequential defibrillation with 400 J. She was defibrillated perhaps 25 times. In addition to profound acute heart failure, the patient suffered from electrical storm. Was her outcome to be expected for ostial RCA OMI?