What question did this study set out to answer?

To evaluate cardiac mechanisms and premonitory rhythm changes that trigger transient syncopal attacks in patients with complete auriculoventricular dissociation.

September 1, 1932Archives of Internal Medicine

Transient Ventricular Fibrillation

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Population

1 woman with complete auriculoventricular dissociation and transient syncopal seizures

Design

Case_report

Authors

SSSidney P. SchwartzLincoln Medical Center

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Implication

Alerts to unrecognized ECG precursors of syncope in complete AV dissociation; leaves open prevalence and management implications.

Key Points

To evaluate cardiac mechanisms and premonitory rhythm changes that trigger transient syncopal attacks in patients with complete auriculoventricular dissociation.
Clinical evaluation and simultaneous electrocardiographic recording during syncopal episodes in a female patient with complete auriculoventricular dissociation.
Analysis of baseline heart rate accelerations and cardiac rhythm transitions preceding periods of unconsciousness.
Syncopal episodes in complete auriculoventricular dissociation frequently stem from transient ventricular fibrillation following an initial acceleration above the baseline heart rate.
Electrocardiographic monitoring demonstrated a distinct alternative cardiac mechanism directly preceding loss of consciousness compared to earlier observations.

Structured PICO

Population

1 woman with complete auriculoventricular dissociation and transient syncopal seizures

Outcome

Cardiac mechanism preceding periods of unconsciousness as observed on electrocardiogram

Electrocardiographic monitoring of a patient with complete auriculoventricular dissociation and syncopal seizures revealed a novel cardiac mechanism preceding unconsciousness.

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Sidney P. Schwartz (1932) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8475f7880bd6494af7bab2 https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1932.00150160101012

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Transient Ventricular Fibrillation

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