Why the study?
Does emergency external cardiac pacing successfully stabilize patients with life-threatening bradyarrhythmias?
Does emergency external cardiac pacing successfully stabilize patients with life-threatening bradyarrhythmias?
Emergency external cardiac pacing serves as an effective rapid bridging therapy for life-threatening bradyarrhythmias prior to definitive transvenous pacing.
May support external pacing as emergency bridge in bradyarrhythmias; hypothesis-generating case series requiring prospective validation.
We report seven cases of life-threatening bradyarrhythmias in which successful external cardiac pacing was established with a minimal delay, enabling more definitive transvenous pacing to be effected later.
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