Ventricular fibrillation initiated by an electrocution injury and terminated by an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.
A 52-year-old man with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) was accidentally electrocuted when a flagpole he was erecting contacted an overhead electrical power line. The electrocution injury initiated ventricular fibrillation. The ICD sensed the arrhythmia and delivered therapy, converting his rhythm to sinus rhythm. The patient had no subsequent cardiac or neurological sequelae.
Perret
John Nelson
JN
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Earl K. Long Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Baton Rouge, USA.
Sanders
Taylor Wells
TW
d'Autremont
Sarah Baillio
SB
Patrick
Henry Carr
HC
D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable; D004556:Electric Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*