TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Transthoracic Cardiac Pacing A1 - Shah, Chirag N. A1 - Ortega, Guillermo A1 - Morrison, Daniel S. A2 - Reichman, Eric F. PY - 2018 T2 - Reichman's Emergency Medicine Procedures, 3e AB - Transthoracic cardiac pacing is a historic technique of pacing the heart with an electrode introduced percutaneously into the ventricular cavity using a needle trocar introducer. There is sparse literature on transthoracic cardiac pacing, its benefits, and complications. Transthoracic pacing was a faster alternative to transvenous pacing in the patient with an acutely unstable dysrhythmia. The advent of effective and efficient transcutaneous pacing has made the indications for transthoracic pacing extremely rare. The technique of transthoracic pacing is included in this text because it is occasionally performed in situations where transcutaneous pacing is unavailable or ineffective.1-3 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/11/11 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1159796349 ER -