Perret John Nelson, Sanders Taylor Wells, d'Autremont Sarah Baillio, Patrick Henry Carr
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Earl K. Long Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Baton Rouge, USA.
J La State Med Soc. 2009 Nov-Dec;161(6):343-7.
A 52-year-old man with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) was accidentally electrocuted when a flagpole he was erecting contacted an overhead electrical power line. The electrocution injury initiated ventricular fibrillation. The ICD sensed the arrhythmia and delivered therapy, converting his rhythm to sinus rhythm. The patient had no subsequent cardiac or neurological sequelae.
