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Flicker and flutter of the ventricles


Flicker and flutter of the ventricles (ventricular fibrillation) can occur with any severe heart disease (more often in the acute phase of myocardial infarction), with pulmonary embolism, an overdose of cardiac glycosides and antiarrhythmics, with electric trauma, anesthesia, intracardiac manipulation.
Symptoms and course:
Sudden cessation of blood circulation, a picture of clinical death: lack of pulse, heart tones, consciousness, hoarse agonal breathing, sometimes convulsions, dilated pupils.
Treatment is reduced to immediate indirect massage of the heart, artificial respiration (see "sudden death"). Introduced lidocaine, potassium preparations, adrenaline, calcium gluconate intracardiac, oxygen treatment is performed.