Why the study?
Does rapid atrial pacing terminate drug-resistant ventricular tachycardia in a post-MI patient?
Population
n=1 man with recurrent drug-resistant ventricular tachycardia two months post myocardial infarction…
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
18 months
Authors
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May offer a self-managed termination option in refractory post-MI VT; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before adoption.
Does rapid atrial pacing terminate drug-resistant ventricular tachycardia in a post-MI patient?
Rapid atrial pacing via an externally activated pacemaker can successfully and repeatedly self-terminate drug-resistant ventricular tachycardia.
Waxman et al. (1983) studied this question.
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