Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine (Nov 2019)

Cardiac Standstill With Intracardiac Clot Formation

  • Jeffrey Tadashi Sakamoto,
  • Ian Storch,
  • Laleh Gharahbaghian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.7.42932
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 4

Abstract

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This case describes and depicts cardiac standstill with thrombosed blood within the chambers of the heart. This was likely due to stasis of blood from a prolonged no-flow state. After viewing this ultrasound finding, the decision was made to halt resuscitative efforts in this case of a patient in cardiac arrest.