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Chest, Vol 93, 1264-1269, Copyright © 1988 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Current management of severe exercise-related cardiac events

JD Cantwell, PM Murray and RJ Thomas
Georgia Baptist Medical Center, Atlanta.

Severe cardiac events during either exercise testing or cardiac rehabilitation are described in five patients. The three events related to exercise testing involved patients with atypical chest pain which, in retrospect, probably reflected unstable angina pectoris or coronary vasospasm (or both). Prompt coronary angiography with subsequent percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty was performed. Two cardiac arrests (one fatal) occurred during participation in cardiac rehabilitation programs. One was caused by primary ventricular fibrillation. Electrophysiologic testing was used in determining the efficacy of the drug. The fatality was due to an acute myocardial infarction. On-site intravenous thrombolytic therapy might prove useful in similar events in the future. Comparisons of surveys published in the 1970s with those in the 1980s show that the mortality and morbidity during exercise testing remain low and that similar rates during cardiac rehabilitation are even lower; however, these cases exemplify that emergency situations can and do arise, necessitating prompt intervention and aggressive subsequent management.


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