I’m a CVT so I work in the cath lab. I was a student at the time. This lady came in for a routine cath. She was around 40-50. She was very nervous and told us about her dinner plans with her kids. We get started and everything is going well until she jumps up almost off the table and yells “I don’t want to do this anymore”. We’re already inside her heart and there’s catheters in her arteries we don’t want her to pull out so we have to pull her back down and restrain her for her safety. Anyway, about 30 seconds later her heart stops beating. We looked for dissection/perforation from her arteries to down her aorta and nothing. Every single thing looked normal. She died and didn’t get to have dinner with her kids. They denied an autopsy so nobody knows exactly what happened.
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