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Asystole and increased serum myoglobin levels associated with 'packing blackout' in a competitive breath-hold diver.

Författare

Summary, in English

Summary Many competitive breath-hold divers use 'glossopharyngeal insufflation', also called 'lung packing', to overfill their lungs above normal total lung capacity. This increases intrathoracic pressure, decreases venous return, compromises cardiac pumping, and reduces arterial blood pressure, possibly resulting in a syncope breath-hold divers call 'packing blackout'. We report a case with a breath-hold diver who inadvertently experienced a packing blackout. During the incident, an electrocardiogram (ECG) and blood pressure were recorded, and blood samples for determinations of biomarkers of cardiac muscle perturbation (creatine kinase-MB isoenzyme (CK-MB), cardiac troponin-T (TnT), and myoglobin) were collected. The ECG revealed short periods of asystole during the period of 'packing blackout', simultaneous with pronounced reductions in systolic, diastolic, and pulse pressures. Serum myoglobin concentration was elevated 40 and 150 min after the incident, whereas there were no changes in CK-MB or TnT. The ultimate cause of syncope in this diver probably was a decrease in cerebral perfusion following glossopharyngeal insufflation. The asystolic periods recorded in this diver could possibly indicate that susceptible individuals may be put at risk of a serious cardiac incident if the lungs are excessively overinflated by glossopharyngeal insufflation. This concern is further substantiated by the observed increase in serum myoglobin concentration after the event.

Publiceringsår

2009

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

458-461

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volym

29

Issue

6

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Ämne

  • Other Clinical Medicine

Nyckelord

  • cardiac markers
  • apnoea
  • dysrythmia
  • glossopharyngeal insufflation
  • hypotension
  • syncope

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Cardiorespiratory Physiology Group

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1475-0961