Erschienen in:
01.12.2013 | Healing Arts
The Mentor
verfasst von:
Richard B. Weinberg, MD
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 12/2013
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Excerpt
The last month of my Internal Medicine residency was a memorable one, thanks to Mr. Perini
1. He had had an anterior myocardial infarction complicated by malignant arrythmias, and in the days before electrophysiology mapping and cardiac ablation, stopping them had proved impossible. Without a continuous lidocaine infusion, Mr. Perini rapidly developed ventricular fibrillation and cardiac arrest. We were at a loss. …