25-year-old girl has cardiac arrest after nearly 2 years of using electronic cigarettes

After 2 years of regular use of e-cigarettes, a 25-year-old female patient suddenly had a headache, dizziness, fainting, then cardiopulmonary arrest, multiple organ failure...

On August 20, information from People's Hospital 115 (HCMC) received a 25-year-old female patient who was admitted in a coma, with low blood pressure, and then rapidly progressed to respiratory arrest.

Taking a medical history, the patient had been smoking e-cigarettes for the past 2 years. The morning before being admitted to the hospital, she went to work as usual. At 9am, the patient suddenly had a headache, dizziness and fainted.

Dr. Cao Hoai Tuan Anh, Deputy Director of People's Hospital 115 (HCMC), said that immediately upon admission, the patient was quickly given chest compressions, intubation, mechanical ventilation, vasopressors, and multiple electric shocks to the right ventricular fibrillation.

“After 20 minutes of advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the patient’s heart started beating again. However, there was a risk of cardiac arrest. The patient was quickly transferred to the Emergency Resuscitation and Anti-Poison Department,” said Dr. Tuan Anh.

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Here, the patient continued to have cardiac arrest, recurrent ventricular fibrillation and fell into a state of multiple organ failure. The patient continued to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation, electric shock, antiarrhythmic drugs, vasopressors, mechanical ventilation, emergency initiation of VA ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) and continuous blood filtration to support multiple organ failure.

Based on the clinical picture and history of long-term e-cigarette use, after excluding common causes of cardiac arrest in young people, along with medical evidence of the association between e-cigarettes and arrhythmias, doctors suspected that this case of cardiac arrest was caused by the effects of e-cigarettes.

After 14 days of treatment, the patient gradually recovered, organ function improved, and was discharged from the hospital with no neurological sequelae.

According to Dr. Tuan Anh, many people now use electronic cigarettes thinking that they are safer or less toxic than traditional cigarettes, and can even be used to help them quit smoking.

However, recent medical studies show the opposite: e-cigarettes not only have long-term effects on the lungs and nervous system, but also harm the cardiovascular system, especially increasing the risk of arrhythmia and sudden death.

“E-cigarettes are currently a potential danger to the respiratory, nervous and cardiovascular systems, and can even cause sudden death. The risk is especially high in young people without underlying medical conditions, but who use them regularly, for a long time, inhale aerosols deeply into the lungs and have an undetected genetic risk of arrhythmia. If you or a loved one is using e-cigarettes, consider stopping as soon as possible,” Dr. Tuan Anh advised.

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