Cases from the aerospace medicine residents' teaching file. Case #22. An air traffic controller with syncope and accelerated idioventricular rhythm.
An 18-year-old air traffic controller fainted while running; an asymptomatic accelerated idioventricular rhythm was discovered in the ensuing aeromedical workup. The clinical presentation, ECG diagnosis, and aeromedical disposition of accelerated idioventricular rhythm are discussed.
Crowley
J S
JS
U.S. Army Aeromedical Center, Fort Rucker, Alabama.
Holloway
J D
JD
D000293:Adolescent; D001359:Aviation; D003681:Dehydration / Q000150:complications; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006359:Heat Exhaustion / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel; D013575:Syncope / Q000209:etiology*; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000150:complications*