Pacer pads and automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator in intubated patient

Case contributed by Kirollos Bechay , 20 Aug 2022
Diagnosis certain
Changed by Calum Worsley, 22 Sep 2022
Disclosures - updated 12 Apr 2022: Nothing to disclose

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Pacer pads and AICDautomated implantable cardioverter defibrillator in intubated patient
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  • Crofoot M, Sarwar A, Weir A. External Pacemaker. 2022. - <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30137851">Pubmed</a>
  • Meagan Crofoot, Ayesha Sarwar, Alec J. Weir. External Pacemaker. StatPearls Publishing. 2021. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519567/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519567/</a> - <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30137851">Pubmed</a>

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Pacer pads and AICD in intubated patient
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1. The single lead left-sided AICDautomated implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD) and its lead are in the appropriate positions.  The tip of the left IJ CVCinternal jugular central venous catheter is seen in the region of the junction of the right and left brachiocephalic veins and is obscured due to overlying leads and wires. The tip of the right IJ CVCleft internal jugular central venous catheter terminates in the region of the proximal SVCsuperior vena cava. Overlying tubes, leads, wires, and pacer pads obscure details limiting evaluation.

2. Overall moderate bilateral lung aeration in this patient with diffuse bilateral coarse interstitial reticular and patchy ground-glass airspace opacifications, left greater than the right. No discrete large effusion on the left or pneumothorax on either side. Severe cardiomegaly.

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