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.

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