Sudden death during ambulatory monitoring. Clinical and electrocardiographic correlations. Report of a case.
Population
1 man with known coronary heart disease
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
Same day
Authors
Discussion
Loading...
Member takes
Implication
Single-case VF documentation during sudden death; hypothesis-generating and leaves open broader mechanistic or preventive inferences.
Structured PICO
P
Population
1 man with known coronary heart disease
I
Intervention
Ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring
O
Outcome
Terminal mechanism of sudden deathhard clinical
This case report documents ventricular fibrillation as the terminal mechanism of sudden death during ambulatory monitoring, highlighting the role of ischemia and catecholamine response in lowering the fibrillation threshold.
Cite This Study
Gradman et al. (1977) studied this question.