title: [Successful termination of ventricular fibrillation using the precordial thump].
abstract: A 75 year old female underwent angiography which revealed diffuse restenosis in a bare metal stent implanted in the right coronary artery, three month earlier. A wire was used to cross the lesion; balloon angioplasty was performed followed by drug eluting stent implantation. Inflation times were short. As the balloon of the stent was retrieved, the patient went into ventricular fibrillation (VF). An order to charge the defibrillator for DC shock was given. The operating physician immediately delivered a quick strong blow to the patient's thorax (precordial thump) which stopped the VF rhythm and converted it into atrial fibrillation. The patient regained consciousness and had no recollection of what had happened. No DC shock was needed.
authors.forename: Amir
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Solomonica
authors.forename: Ariel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roguin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000379:methods; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000209:etiology*; D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000379:methods; D023903:Coronary Restenosis / Q000601:surgery; D054855:Drug-Eluting Stents; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000379:methods*; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000628:therapy*