Ventricular electrical storm
Over this last turkey holiday - my brother (an ICU/anesthesiologist) - was telling me about a case were he had some one with ventricular electrical storm - and to fix it (or control it at least) - he used isoproterenol to overdrive the ventricle. He said it worked well.
I had never heard of that and thought the idea was pretty brilliant.
Does this sort of thing happen a lot in ICUs? And is a beta-agonist commonly used?
My pea-brain would have used a beta-blocker instead of a beta...
Ventricular electrical storm
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