Electrical cardioversion resulting in ventricular fibrillation
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Ventricular fibrillation during electrical cardioversion of pre-excited atrial fibrillation.
The Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome can rarely present with pre-excited atrial fibrillation. In this condition the short refractory period of the accessory pathway can lead to rapid atrioventricular conduction. There is then a danger that at high heart rates the irregular broad complex tachycardia that results can deteriorate into ventricular fibrillation. The initial management of patients pres...
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عنوان ژورنال: Wiener klinische Wochenschrift
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0043-5325,1613-7671
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-004-0220-z