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Removal of Pacing Wires

smlrn replied to Dyno's topic in Med-Surg

I have worked on an acute cardiac floor for the last 5 years. I have had 2 patients have a cardiac tampenode requiring emergency surgery within 2 hours of the pacer wires being removed. The classic signs and symptoms were observed at about the 45 m...