Epistaxis and Death by the Trigeminocardiac Reflex: A Cautionary Report

Fed Pract. 2015 Jun;32(6):45-49.

Authors

Disha Awasthi¹, Thomas M Roy¹, Ryland P Byrd Jr¹

Affiliation

¹ is a pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine fellowship trainee and and are professors, all at the East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine in Johnson City. Dr. Byrd is also a staff physician in the Pulmonary Section at the James H. Quillen VAMC in Mountain Home, Tennessee.

PMID: 30766072
PMCID: PMC6363312

Abstract

A case of trigeminocardiac reflex following nasal packing for epistaxis led to respiratory and cardiac arrest and patient death.