RT Book, Section
A1 Daubert, James P.
A2 Prystowsky, Eric N.
A2 Klein, George J.
A2 Daubert, James P.
SR Print(0)
ID 1176522979
T1 Sudden Cardiac Arrest/Sudden Cardiac Death
T2 Cardiac Arrhythmias: Interpretation, Diagnosis, and Treatment, 2e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260118209
LK accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1176522979
RD 2024/04/25
AB In  1956,  Claude  Beck  and  colleagues  described  a  case  with  resuscitation  from  out-of-hospital  sudden  cardiac  arrest  (SCA).1-3  The  patient,  a  practicing  physician,  had  long  suffered  from  what  he  had  self-diagnosed  as  indigestion.  He  experienced  a  persistent  episode,  went  to  the  hospital  and  was  diagnosed  with  posterolateral  myocardial  infarction  (MI).  Given  the  absence  of  treatment  at  that  time,  he  was  discharged,  but  he  collapsed  just  outside  the  hospital  and  was  retrieved.  He  underwent  thoracotomy,  open  cardiac  massage,  then  internal  defibrillation  and  recovered.