PROLONGATION OF THE Q-T INTERVAL (ROMANO-WARD SYNDROME): ANAESTHETIC MANAGEMENT

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1 December 1981

journal article
research article
Published by Elsevier in British Journal of Anaesthesia

Vol. 53 (12) , 1347-1350
https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/53.12.1347

Abstract

The anaesthetic management is described of a patient with prolonged Q-T interval which had been complicated by ventricular fibrillation at induction of general anaesthesia for a previous operation. This complication was prevented by effective premedication with i.v. propranolol and block of the left stellate ganglion.

Keywords

ROMANO-WARD SYNDROME
QT INTERVAL
ANESTHETICS
PREMEDICATION
STELLATE GANGLION
PREVIOUS SURGERY
ANESTHESIA
GENERAL
PROPRANOLOL
VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION

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Congenital deaf-mutism, functional heart disease with prolongation of the Q-T interval, and sudden death
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