• Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · Jun 2008

    Case Reports

    [Total intravenous anesthesia for repositioning an implantable defibrillator in a patient with long QT syndrome].

    • F Femenía, J I Ruiz-Gimeno, M A Ferre, L Cabezudo, C Vivó, and M Barberá.
    • Servicio de Anestesiología y Reanimación, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia. xiscofemenia@yahoo.es
    • Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim. 2008 Jun 1;55(6):367-70.

    AbstractWe report the case of a 27-year-old woman with congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) who was scheduled for surgery to reposition an implantable defibrillator. Given the risk of sudden death due to fatal ventricular arrhythmia, the woman required implantation of a defibrillator with pacemaker capability. Combined anesthesia-analgesia was used in order to minimize the risk of ventricular arrhythmia caused by increased serum concentrations of catecholamines. When cardioversion, defibrillation and anti-tachycardia functions had been deactivated, anesthesia was induced with propofol, fentanyl and rocuronium. Anesthesia was maintained with an infusion of propofol and remifentanil. We describe the pathophysiology and treatment of LQTS and discuss anesthetic management for repositioning a defibrillator in a patient with congenital LQTS.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…