Key result
Intravenous sodium diphenylhydantoin therapy for cardiac arrhythmias resulted in fatal ventricular fibrillation in an 85-year-old woman.
Population
1 85-year-old Negro woman with a one-week history of progressive shortness of breath and cardiac arrhythmias
Design
Case_report
Authors
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Warns of possible fatal ventricular fibrillation with IV sodium diphenylhydantoin in elderly patients; leaves open broader safety implications.
Case Report (n=1)
This case report highlights a previously unrecorded complication of fatal ventricular fibrillation following intravenous sodium diphenylhydantoin therapy for cardiac arrhythmias.
G. Lee Gellerman (1967) conducted a case report in Cardiac arrhythmias (n=1). Intravenous sodium diphenylhydantoin was evaluated on Fatal ventricular fibrillation. Intravenous sodium diphenylhydantoin therapy for cardiac arrhythmias resulted in fatal ventricular fibrillation in an 85-year-old woman.
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