title: Successful conversion of post-cardiac surgery electric storm in a child.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The management of ventricular electrical storm can prove to be a challenge for the clinician given its complexity and life threatening consequences.
  
  
  METHODS
  8-year-old boy with repeated life-threatening polymorphic ventricular tachycardia following aortic valve replacement surgery.
  
  
  METHODS
  Defibrillated 45 times in addition to multiple antiarrhythmic drugs.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Conversion to stable sinus rhythm with normal neurological outcome.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Electric storm can be controlled by combination of multiple intravenous antiarrhythmic drugs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Critical Care, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi, India. Correspondence to: Dr Abhinav Rastogi, Pediatric Critical Care Department, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, Okhla, New Delhi 110 025, India. dr_abhinav2010@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Abhinav
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rastogi
authors.forename: Ajay
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Vishal K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery; D000082882:Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease; D002648:Child; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012086:Reoperation; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left