Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Associated with Ventricular Fibrillation and Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Abstract EN

Aneurysmal subarachonoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a common cause of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).

Even after successful resuscitation, most of these SAH patients suffer brain death or enter a vegetative state.

To our knowledge, survival without neurological damage from SAH following OHCA is quite a rare event.

We treated a case of SAH who presented with OHCA and survived without neurological sequelae.

A 50-year-old woman presented with ventricular fibrillation (VF), and was successfully resuscitated before hospital arrival.

Since there was no evidence of acute coronary syndrome, a head CT scan was performed and established the diagnosis of SAH.

On arrival, she was comatose, however, 3 hours after admission, her neurological status recovered.

She underwent treatment for the ruptured aneurysms and was discharged from hospital without any neurological deficits.