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Case Report: Cardiac Arrest in a Child’s Structurally Normal Heart

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EMS found the patient pulseless and apneic, with an initial rhythm showing ventricular fibrillation (see figure 1). Figure 1: The EMS rhythm strip. Type 1 is diagnostic and characterized by J point and ST elevation > 2 mV with coved ST- elevation in at least two precordial leads, followed by negative T wave. Circulation.

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