. 2015 Jun;32(6):45-49.

Epistaxis and Death by the Trigeminocardiac Reflex: A Cautionary Report

Affiliations

¹ is a pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine fellowship trainee and and are professors, all at the East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine in Johnson City. Dr. Byrd is also a staff physician in the Pulmonary Section at the James H. Quillen VAMC in Mountain Home, Tennessee.

Disha Awasthi et al. Fed Pract. 2015 Jun.

. 2015 Jun;32(6):45-49.

¹ is a pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine fellowship trainee and and are professors, all at the East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine in Johnson City. Dr. Byrd is also a staff physician in the Pulmonary Section at the James H. Quillen VAMC in Mountain Home, Tennessee.

Abstract

A case of trigeminocardiac reflex following nasal packing for epistaxis led to respiratory and cardiac arrest and patient death.

Author disclosures The authors report no actual or potential conflicts of interest with regard to this article.

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