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Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 7e
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Chapter 22. Cardiac Rhythm Disturbances
Sections: Cardiac Rhythm Disturbances: Introduction, Normal Cardiac Conducting System, Electrophysiology of the Heart, Pathophysiology of Cardiac Rhythm Disturbances, The Normal ECG, Approach to the Patient with Cardiac Rhythm Disturbance, Specific Arrhythmias and Their Treatment, Conduction Disturbances, Conduction Abnormalities That Can Cause Rhythm Disturbances, Cardiac Pacemakers and Automated Internal Cardiac Defibrillators, Acknowledgment, References.
Topics Discussed: arrhythmias.
Excerpt:"Quick and decisive management is of paramount importance in the treatment
of cardiac rhythm disturbances in the ED. Cardiac arrhythmias are
common and can present as dizziness, palpitations, syncope, or sudden
death. Arrhythmias can be caused by a primary cardiac event, such
as ischemia, by a genetic abnormality of the conduction system,
or be the result of a vast number of pathologic processes, including
sepsis, metabolic derangements, toxicologic, or traumatic...."
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