Part III: What went wrong?
The patient was found dead by a relative, still seated in front of the television. The television was still on. The telephone records showed that he did not call for help. Therefore, the death was presumed to be sudden, without premonitory symptoms, and most consistent with an arrhythmic mechanism. Though autopsy was not done, we performed a post-mortem interrogation of the implanted ICD. The device memory showed that the patient was free of arrhythmias until the day he died. The retrieved electrograms, stored in the device’s memory at the presumed time of death, are shown in figures 2-7.
Figure interpretation. The stored electrograms show the cause of death. All the traces are from the same event b
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