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Critical care medicine · Oct 1983
External noninvasive cardiac pacing in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
- R H Falk, L Jacobs, A Sinclair, and C Madigan-McNeil.
- Crit. Care Med. 1983 Oct 1;11(10):779-82.
AbstractExternal noninvasive cardiac pacing was applied outside the hospital to 19 patients who had experienced cardiopulmonary arrest and 1 patient with life-threatening bradycardia. Seven patients developed electrocardiographic evidence of pacemaker capture, although only 2 had palpable pulses. The patient with bradycardia was successfully paced. This study demonstrates the feasibility of cardiac pacing in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest but confirms the poor prognosis of asystolic cardiac arrest even with the application of pacing.
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