Iatrogenic cardiac arrest during thyroid storm
Despite being first-line therapy, beta blockers can be beneficial or devastating in thyroid storm patients depending on the presence of low cardiac output or high cardiac output heart failure.Clinical awareness, prompt echocardiography and the use of shorter half-life beta blockers can prevent rapid cardiac deterioration in thyroid storm patients.
Authors
- M. Randhawa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2629-8717)
- Taha Mansoor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0447-7186)
- Jaspreet Kaur (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4125-5355)
- Anand Rai
- Santhosh Koshy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7186-7179)
- Farhat Ullah Khan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3384-4400)
- Dylan Yu
Institutions
- Western Michigan University (US)
- Borgess Health (US)
- Stryker (United States) (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
- Published
- 2024-11-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.12890/2024_004958
- Primary Topic
- Thyroid Disorders and Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00