Defibrillation coil reversal: a rare cause of abnormal noise and inappropriate shocks.
We report a rare case of inadvertent reversal of the defibrillator shock coils during generator change which then resulted in both intermittent, recurrent "noise" on both the rate sensing and the shock electrogram leads and multiple inappropriate shocks.
Jeevanantham
Vinodh
V
Unity Hospital, Rochester, New York, USA.
Levine
Ethan
E
Budzikowski
Adam S
AS
Shah
Abrar H
AH
Daubert
James P
JP
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