Population
1 patient with unrecognized long QT syndrome who underwent emergency laparoscopic appendectomy 1 week after…
Design
Case_report
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QTc monitoring during anesthetic emergence may avert TdP in unrecognized long QT; this case leaves open broader screening utility.
Emergence from general anesthesia can trigger Torsade de pointes in patients with unrecognized long QT syndrome due to sympathetic nervous system accentuation.
Lee et al. (2011) studied this question.
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