Arrhythmias
The main symptoms of the arrhythmias are:
• syncopes – described as the brief loss of consciousness due to transient low cerebral blood flow.
• palpitations
• shortness of breath
PATOLOGIES WE DEAL
• Nodal reentrant tachycardia
• Atrio – ventricular reentrant tachycardias ( Wolff – Parkinson – White or Mahaim preexcitation syndromes)
• Atrial tachycardia
• Atrial fibrillation
• Ventricular tachycardias
• Ventricular fibrillation
• Bradiarrythmias
Guidelines:
- ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 2001 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation): Developed in Collaboration With the European Heart Rhythm Association and the Heart Rhythm Society; Valentin Fuster, Lars E. Rydén, David S. Cannom et al.; Circulation 2006;114;e257-e354
- ACC/AHA/Physician Consortium 2008 Clinical Performance Measures for Adults With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation or Atrial Flutter: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures and the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (Writing Committee to Develop Clinical Performance Measures for Atrial Fibrillation); N. A. Mark Estes, III, Jonathan L. Halperin, Hugh Calkins, Michael D. Ezekowitz, Paul Gitman, Alan S. Go, Robert L. McNamara, Joseph V. Messer, James L. Ritchie, Sam J.W. Romeo, Albert L. Waldo and D. George Wyse; Circulation 2008;117;1101-1120; originally published online Feb 18, 2008;
- ACC/AHA Pocket Guideline Based on the ACC/AHA/ESC Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation.
- ACC/AHA/ESC Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Supraventricular Arrhythmias*—Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Develop Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Supraventricular Arrhythmias); Carina Blomström-Lundqvist, Melvin M. Scheinman, Etienne M. Aliot, Joseph S. Alpert, Hugh Calkins, A. John Camm, W. Barton Campbell, David E. Haines, Karl H. Kuck, Bruce B. Lerman, D. Douglas Miller, Charlie Willard Shaeffer, Jr, William G. Stevenson, Gordon F. Tomaselli, Elliott M. Antman, Sidney C. Smith, Jr, Joseph S. Alpert, David P. Faxon, Valentin Fuster, Raymond J. Gibbons, Gabriel Gregoratos, Loren F. Hiratzka, Sharon Ann Hunt, Alice K. Jacobs, Richard O. Russell, Jr, Silvia G. Priori, Jean-Jacques Blanc, Andzrej Budaj, Enrique Fernandez Burgos, Martin Cowie, Jaap Willem Deckers, Maria Angeles Alonso Garcia, Werner W. Klein, John Lekakis, Bertil Lindahl, Gianfranco Mazzotta, João Carlos Araujo Morais, Ali Oto, Otto Smiseth, Hans-Joachim Trappe; Circulation 2003;108;1871-1909.
- American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force and the ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for Management of Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death: A Report of the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Develop Guidelines for Management of Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death): Developed in Collaboration With the European Heart Rhythm Association and the Heart Rhythm Society; Douglas P. Zipes, A. John Camm, Martin Borggrefe, Alfred E. Buxton, Bernard Chaitman, Martin Fromer, Gabriel Gregoratos, George Klein, Arthur J. Moss, Robert J. Myerburg, Silvia G. Priori, Miguel A. Quinones, Dan M. Roden, Michael J. Silka and Cynthia Tracy; Circulation 2006;114;e385-e484; originally published online Aug 25, 2006.
- ACC/AHA/ESC Pocket Guideline (Based on the ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines) Management of Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death September 2006 + wallet card.
- ACC/AHA/HRS 2008 Guidelines for Device-Based Therapy of Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the ACC/AHA/NASPE 2002 Guideline Update for Implantation of Cardiac Pacemakers and Antiarrhythmia Devices): Developed in Collaboration With the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and Society of Thoracic Surgeons; Andrew E. Epstein, John P. DiMarco, Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, N.A. Mark Estes, III, Roger A. Freedman, Leonard S. Gettes, A. Marc Gillinov, Gabriel Gregoratos, Stephen C. Hammill, David L. Hayes, Mark A. Hlatky, L. Kristin Newby, Richard L. Page, Mark H. Schoenfeld, Michael J. Silka, Lynne Warner Stevenson and Michael O. Sweeney; Circulation 2008;117;e350-e408; originally published online May 15, 2008.
- ACC/AHA Pocket Guideline (Based on the ACC/AHA/HRS 2008 Guidelines) Device-Based Therapy of Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities May 2008.Guidelines for cardiac pacing and cardiac resynchronisation therapy (SLIDESET); The Task Force for Cardiac Pacing and Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy of the European Society of Cardiology Developed in Collaboration with the Eruopean Heart Rhythm Association.
- Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of syncope (2009); Angel Moya, Richard Sutton et al.; European Heart Journal (2009) 30, 2631–2671.
uidelines for cardiac pacing and cardiac resynchronisation therapy (SLIDESET); The Task Force for Cardiac Pacing and Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy of the European Society of Cardiology Developed in Collaboration with the Eruopean Heart Rhythm Association