A 49-year-old woman with multiple episodes of ventricular fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, and Torsades de Pointes, requiring 211 defibrillatory shocks

J Emerg Nurs. 2007 Aug;33(4):352-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jen.2007.01.019.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abdominal Pain / etiology*
  • Alcoholic Intoxication / complications
  • Diabetes Complications
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Electric Countershock
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Gastrointestinal Diseases / diagnosis
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Myocardial Infarction / complications
  • Myocardial Infarction / diagnosis*
  • Torsades de Pointes / etiology*
  • Torsades de Pointes / therapy
  • Triage*
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / etiology*
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / therapy
  • Vomiting / etiology*