Successful Prolonged Resuscitation of Ventricular Fibrillation Arrest in a Patient With Acute Myocardial Infarction

摘要

A 67-year-old man presented to the emergency department with symptoms of acute myocardial infarction. Electrocardiogram showed ST segment elevations in leads II, III, and AVK While waiting for cardiac catheterization, he developed prolonged ventricular fibrillation lasting for 69 minutes, throughout which he was resuscitated as per the 2010 Advanced Cardiac Life Support protocol. The patient was transferred to the catheterization lab while undergoing active resuscitation, where a stent was placed in his right coronary artery. He was neurologically intact postcatheterization and discharged home on the sixth day of admission.