Defibrillation Coil Reversal: A Rare Cause of Abnormal Noise and Inappropriate Shocks

Authors :: Adam S. Budzikowski
James P. Daubert
Ethan Levine
Vinodh Jeevanantham
Abrar H. Shah
Source :: Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology. 31:375-377
Publication Year :: 2008
Publisher :: Wiley, 2008.
Abstract: 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.

Tools