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June 23, 1979BMJOpen Access

Sudden death during ambulatory monitoring.

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Population

3 patients with ischaemic heart disease

Design

Case_series

Authors

ALAnandaroop LahiriYahoo (United Kingdom)Vijay BalasubramanianVijay BalasubramanianVascular / Pulmonary VascularERE. B. RafteryNorthwick Park Hospital

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Implication

May link bidirectional ectopy to terminal VF in IHD; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before clinical adoption.

Structured PICO

P
Population
3 patients with ischaemic heart disease
I
Intervention
Ambulatory tape recorder monitoring
O
Outcome
Electrocardiographic mechanism of sudden deathhard clinical

Ambulatory monitoring reveals that sudden death in ischemic heart disease can be caused by ventricular fibrillation triggered by paired ectopic beats or by asystole.

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Lahiri et al. (1979) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a70702ef44fa9f079de147dhttps://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.1.6179.1676
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