Abstract
A 19-year-old Australian Indigenous woman presented after suffering a ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest while swimming, leading to near drowning, in a remote Aboriginal community of South Australia. The patient was initially resuscitated by ≈10 minutes of basic life support from a lifeguard, before receiving an automatic external defibrillation shock, and transferred to a regional intensive care unit where she received 24 hours of cooling. She retained normal cognitive function upon recovery...
Original language | English |
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Article number | e002813 |
Pages (from-to) | 93-94 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2020 |
Keywords
- Australia
- genetics
- humans
- long QT syndrome
- potassium channels