During recovery in the while in the post-anesthesia care unit, the patient went into ventricular fibrillation (vf)/torsades with heartrate >200.The patient was unresponsive and pulseless.Code blue was called.Chest compressions were initiated, and the patient was intubated.The patient was taken to the cath lab emergently.Repeat angiogram was unchanged with patent obtuse marginal stent and no left anterior descending artery thrombus on optical coherence tomography.The patient had another episode of ventricular fibrillation during the procedure.The patient received cardioversion and was given iv amiodarone and magnesium.The etiology of multiple vf episodes was unclear.Initial telemetry may be consistent with torsades; however, the patient had normal qtc and normal electrolytes.The issue was possibly due to recurrent ischemia from significant lad disease versus reperfusion injury.In the opinion of the physician, the patient had bradycardia and some ischemia post left circumflex orbital atherectomy intervention.The arrhythmia was a combination of ischemia and brady arrhythmia contributing to r on t phenomena of a well-timed premature ventricular complexes triggering ventricular fibrillation arrest.
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