The patient was about to have emergent coronary angiography, became hypotensive, developed vf and received multiple rounds of defibrillation, cpr and inotropes.The team then placed an iabp.The patient arrested again and received at 6 minutes f cpr with aggressive resuscitation efforts.A 40cm iabp was placed in excellent position and set at 1:1.There was initially excellent augmentation however over several minutes time the map persistently dropped requiring confirmation of central pressures with the use of an omniflush catheter placed in the proximal aorta.Again the patient became hypotensive to the 40s systolic despite aggressive inotropes.The balloon pump waveform had an odd appearance that suggested the patient had no underlying native pressure.This was confirmed by putting the balloon pump on hold which demonstrated no native pressure.Aggressive cpr and resuscitative efforts were reinstituted for an additional 5 minutes which did not result in restoration of a perfusing pressure or rhythm.Therefore all further efforts at resuscitation.
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