TY - JOUR T1 - Near death by central line JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 142 LP - 142 DO - 10.1136/emermed-2013-202544 VL - 31 IS - 2 AU - Hsiang Chung AU - Henry C C Pleass AU - Lawrence P K Yuen AU - Vincent W T Lam Y1 - 2014/02/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/31/2/142.abstract N2 - A 67-year-old man presented to Emergency Department with acute epigastric pain, tachycardia and hyperamylasaemia. The provisional diagnosis of acute pancreatitis was made and a femoral central line was inserted for fluid resuscitation. One hour later, the patient had a sudden witnessed ventricular fibrillation arrest (2 min duration) necessitating cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cardiac defibrillation and intravenous adrenaline administration. He … ER -