Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học quốc tế cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: No fate but what we make: a case of full recovery after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest | Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine BioMed Central Case report No fate but what we make a case of full recovery after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest Mafalda Miranda 1 Pedro J Sousa2 Jorge Ferreira2 Maria J Andrade2 Pedro A Gonẹalves2 and Cristina Romão1 Open Access Address 1Anesthesiology Department Hospital Curry Cabral Lisbon Portugal and 2Cardiology Department Hospital de Santa Cruz Carnaxide Portugal Email Mafalda Miranda - Pedro J Sousa - p965675551@ Jorge Ferreira - jorge_ferreira@ Maria J Andrade - mjandrade@ Pedro A Gonẹalves - paraujogoncalves@ Cristina Romão - romaocris@ Corresponding author Published II December 2009 Received 13 October 2009 _ -r-r__ nJ rI nr- - Accepted 11 December 2009 Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 17 63 doi 1757-7241 -17-63 This article is available from http content 17 1 63 2009 Miranda et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract An 80 years old man suffered a cardiac arrest shortly after arrival to his local health department. Basic Life Support was started promptly and nine minutes later on evaluation by an Advanced Life Support team the victim was defibrillated with a 200J shock. When orotracheal intubation was attempted masseter muscle contraction was noticed on revaluation the victim had pulse and spontaneous breathing. Thirty minutes later the patient had been transferred to an emergency department. As he complained of chest pain the ECG showed a ST segment depression in leads V4 to V6 and laboratorial tests showed cardiac troponine I slightly elevated. A coronary .