A Collapsed Sportsman With a Shock Advised in Sinus Rhythm: The Importance of Automated External Defibrillator Rhythm Strip Retrieval Prior to Defibrillator Implantation

Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2016 Apr;9(4):e003914. doi: 10.1161/CIRCEP.116.003914.

Authors

Vishal Luther¹, Markus B Sikkel², Ian Wright², Mark Faulkner², Norman Qureshi², David C Lefroy²

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (V.L., M.B.S., I.W., N.Q., D.C.L.) and London Ambulance Service (M.F.), London, United Kingdom. [email protected].
² From the Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (V.L., M.B.S., I.W., N.Q., D.C.L.) and London Ambulance Service (M.F.), London, United Kingdom.

PMID: 26987568
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.116.003914

No abstract available

Keywords: automated external defibrillator; cardiac arrhythmias; heart arrest; implanted cardioverter defibrillator; ventricular arrhythmia.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Basketball / physiology*
Bradycardia / complications
Bradycardia / physiopathology
Bradycardia / therapy*
Defibrillators*
Electric Countershock / instrumentation*
Electrocardiography*
Equipment Design
Heart Rate / physiology*
Humans
Male
Syncope / etiology
Syncope / physiopathology
Syncope / therapy*