TY - JOUR
T1 - Fatal Cardiac Arrest during Continuous Ambulatory Monitoring
AU - Salerno, David
AU - Hodges, Morrison
AU - Graham, Ellen
AU - Asinger, Richard W.
AU - Mikell, Frank L.
PY - 1981/9/17
Y1 - 1981/9/17
N2 - To the Editor: Paramedical teams have found that 75 per cent of persons with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest have ventricular fibrillation, whereas the remainder have bradycardia or asystole.1 , 2 However, Winkle has pointed out that there are only eight reported cases of cardiac arrest during continuous ambulatory Holter recording.3 We wish to report another such case. A continuous ambulatory electrocardiographic recording was begun in a 71-year-old man as a screening examination for a research protocol. He had a history of hypertension, smoking, prior myocardial infarction, and ventricular ectopy. He was asymptomatic when the recording was initiated. On the same day, his standard. . .
AB - To the Editor: Paramedical teams have found that 75 per cent of persons with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest have ventricular fibrillation, whereas the remainder have bradycardia or asystole.1 , 2 However, Winkle has pointed out that there are only eight reported cases of cardiac arrest during continuous ambulatory Holter recording.3 We wish to report another such case. A continuous ambulatory electrocardiographic recording was begun in a 71-year-old man as a screening examination for a research protocol. He had a history of hypertension, smoking, prior myocardial infarction, and ventricular ectopy. He was asymptomatic when the recording was initiated. On the same day, his standard. . .
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM198109173051216
DO - 10.1056/NEJM198109173051216
M3 - Letter
C2 - 7266608
AN - SCOPUS:0019883425
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 305
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 12
ER -