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SUBMITTER: Limb C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4369043 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Limb Christopher C Siddiqui Muhammad A MA
BMJ case reports 20150316
The use of ultrasonography is rapidly expanding in emergency medicine. Real-time assessment offers clues to prompt diagnosis and creates opportunities for speedy intervention. We present a case of 'cardiac monitor asystole' that proved to be ventricular fibrillation on ultrasound examination. Uniquely this case demonstrates that this, typically unrecognised, form of ventricular fibrillation responds to desynchronised defibrillation, with restoration of perfusion for approximately 30 min. With in ...[more]