Maura M Scanlon, Shane M Gillespie, Hartzell V Schaff, Yong-Mei Cha, Erica D Wittwer
OBJECTIVES: To describe the successful treatment of medically refractory ventricular arrhythmias in the ICU with ultrasound-guided bilateral stellate ganglion blocks. DATA SOURCES: The data were gathered from the medical record. STUDY SELECTION: This case was selected as it describes the use of ultrasound in the successful termination of a recurrent, malignant arrhythmia, rather than fluoroscopy, to perform bilateral stellate ganglion blocks at the patient's bedside in the ICU...
August 2015: Critical Care Medicine