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ArticleA&A practice2021

Cardiac Arrest due to Failed Pacemaker Capture After Peripheral Nerve Blockade With Levobupivacaine: A Case Report.

Asuka Kitajima, Takeshi Nakatomi, Yuji Otsuka, Masamitsu Sanui, Alan Kawarai Lefor

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Article in A&A practice, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Asuka KitajimaFrom the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Jichi Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Saitama, Japan.
Takeshi NakatomiFrom the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Jichi Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Saitama, Japan.
Yuji OtsukaFrom the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Jichi Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Saitama, Japan.
Masamitsu SanuiFrom the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Jichi Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Saitama, Japan.
Alan Kawarai LeforDepartment of Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan.
Jichi Medical University · JPJichi Medical University Saitama Medical Center · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We describe a patient with a pacemaker who developed cardiac arrest shortly after ultrasound-guided rectus sheath block for postoperative analgesia. The cause of cardiac arrest was capture failure due to an increased pacing threshold, and the patient was promptly treated by increasing the pacing amplitude. Local anesthetics used for rectus sheath block might have affected the pacing threshold and caused pacing capture failure, since local anesthetics can block cardiac sodium channels. Anesthesiologists should recognize the risk of pacemaker capture failure when a large amount of local anesthetic is given to patients with a cardiac pacemaker.

Indexed as

Heart ArrestNerve BlockPacemaker, ArtificialHumansLevobupivacainePeripheral NervesUltrasonography, InterventionalLevobupivacaine

Identifiers

PMID33793428
PMCPMC8083163
OpenAlexW3142701620

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