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Defibrillation Coil Reversal: A Rare Cause of Abnormal Noise and Inappropriate Shocks
Author(s) -
JEEVANANTHAM VINODH,
LEVINE ETHAN,
BUDZIKOWSKI ADAM S.,
SHAH ABRAR H.,
DAUBERT JAMES P.
Publication year - 2008
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.1540-8159.2008.01000.x
Subject(s) - medicine , shock (circulatory) , cardiology , defibrillation , noise (video) , generator (circuit theory) , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , computer science , image (mathematics)
We report a rare case of inadvertent reversal of the defibrillator shock coils during generator change which then resulted in both intermittent, recurrent “noise” on both the rate sensing and the shock electrogram leads and multiple inappropriate shocks.