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A Coroner's Request for Closure: The Value of the Stored Electrogram
Author(s) -
STEVENSON IRENE H.,
MOND HARRY G.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00415.x
Subject(s) - medicine , coroner , troubleshooting , cardiology , closure (psychology) , ablation , medical emergency , poison control , law , suicide prevention , engineering , reliability engineering , political science
Pacemaker diagnostics can be useful to troubleshoot both during life and after death. A 58‐year old man with a single chamber ventricular pacemaker and a previous His bundle ablation died suddenly. Interrogation of his pacemaker revealed the cause of death not as pacemaker malfunction, but a fatal ventricular arrhythmia.