Intra-aortic balloon ECG artefact
Adams, P.C.; Nicholson, M.R.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine 14(1): 45-46
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-8291 PMID: 6590005 Document Number: 223830
Patients undergoing intra-aortic balloon counter pulsation (IABP) for acute life threatening cardiac disease usually have abnormal electrocardiograms (ECGs) and are prone to arrhythmias and conduction disturbances. We report a patient in whom movement of the electrocardiographic lead to the left leg by the balloon catheter caused artefact simulating a conduction disturbance and arrhythmia.