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

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He was defibrillated twice and received two doses of epinephrine, with return of spontaneous circulation. 2007;115(15):2042-2048. There was no family history of syncope or sudden death. EMS found the patient pulseless and apneic, with an initial rhythm showing ventricular fibrillation (see figure 1). Figure 1: The EMS rhythm strip.

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