title: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in a child without overt cardiac disease: emergency department management.
abstract: This case report describes the successful resuscitation of a 7-year-old girl who had no previous history of cardiac disease other than one episode of syncope. She developed ventricular fibrillation for 10 min. External chest compressions, early defibrillation and orotracheal intubation were used with a successful outcome.
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, Evangelic Hospital Betania, Via Argine, 80147, Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Esposito
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Abbruzzese
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004554:Electric Countershock; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D005260:Female; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D008499:Medical Records; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D011312:Pressure; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000379:methods; D013909:Thorax; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000628:therapy