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Failure to sense

05/05/2013 by Bob Dunn

Another ECG demonstrating a pacmaker failure to sense has been added to the Complications of Pacemakers page in the Resuscitation section.

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Pelvic fractures
Atrial flutter artefact

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Associate Professor Robert Dunn

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Associate Professor Meredith Borland
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Levetiracetam loading dose: 10-40 mg/kg in children (maximum dose 3g), 15-60mg/kg in adults (maximum dose 4.5g) over 15 min.

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Eradication of all latent failures in a system is limited primarily by cost but also because it is difficult before the fact to see how such failures might contribute to an accident.

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