Successful resuscitation using transcutaneous cardiac pacing.
Reported here is the case of a patient suffering from hemodynamically significant bradycardia in which the use of transcutaneous cardiac pacing resulted in successful resuscitation, obviating the need for invasive pacing. During pacing, intra-arterial recordings of blood pressure demonstrated higher pulse pressures for paced beats than for the patient's own escape beats. Recent data regarding the use of non-invasive transcutaneous cardiac pacing is also reviewed.
Barthell
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Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226.
Troiano
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P
Stueven
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Schwartz
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J
Thompson
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B
D000368:Aged; D001919:Bradycardia / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial / Q000379:methods*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000379:methods*; D004561:Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation