Breaking the Rhythm: Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) as a Life Saver in a Case of Resistant Arrhythmia and Cardiac Arrest
Alaa B Fadl, Aya Fadl, Rashid Nadeem · 2025
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Alaa Fadl, Aya Fadl, and Rashid Nadeem wrote a 2025 case report on a heart that would not keep its rhythm. A healthy forty-year-old woman had surgery to remove a womb growth. During the operation her heart fell into a chaotic rhythm and she went into shock. Standard resuscitation took forty-five minutes to restart circulation.
Scans showed her heart pumping at only about ten percent of normal strength. A machine that oxygenates blood outside the body was started fifteen hours after the first event and ran for six days. That support bought time for heart checks and rhythm monitoring while the heart recovered. The case shows how such a machine can carry a young patient through a rhythm crisis that drugs cannot stop.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Alaa B Fadl, Aya Fadl, Rashid Nadeem |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 18 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |