Anaesthetic management of severe bradycardia during general anaesthesia using temporary cardiac pacing

Authors: V. Toprak; A. Yentur; M. Sakarya

Source: BJA: British Journal of Anaesthesia, Volume 89, Number 4, 1 October 2002 , pp. 655-657(3)

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Abstract:

There are few reports of management of severe bradycardia with temporary cardiac pacing. We describe a 65-yr-old female patient who developed bradycardia and hypotension on two occasions during general anaesthesia for laryngoscopy. The first episode was treated with atropine, ephedrine, and colloid infusion and the second with a temporary pacemaker and ephedrine.

Br J Anaesth 2002; 89: 655–7

Keywords: complications, bradycardia; heart, arrhythmia, bradycardia; surgery, laryngoscopy

Document Type: Original article

Affiliations: 1: Celal Bayar University, School of Medicine, Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Manisa, Turkey*Corresponding author

Publication date: 2002-10-01

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Founded in 1923, one year after the first anaesthetic journal was published by the International Anaesthesia Research Society, the British Journal of Anaesthesia remains the oldest and largest independent journal of anaesthesia. It became the journal of The College of Anaesthetists in 1990. The College was granted a Royal Charter in 1992. Although there are educational links between the BJA and the College, the journal retains editorial independence.