TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 35. Cardiac Arrhythmias
A1  - Heidenreich, Joseph
A2  - Stone, C. Keith
A2  - Humphries, Roger L.
PY  - 2011
T2  - CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment Emergency Medicine, 7e
AB  - Patients  with  cardiac  arrhythmias  often  present  to  the  emergency  department.  The  patient's  clinical  presentation  determines  the  urgency  with  which  the  assessment  and  management  should  proceed.  Patients  with  serious  signs  and  symptoms  (ie,  shock,  hypotension,  congestive  heart  failure  (CHF),  severe  shortness  of  breath,  altered  level  of  consciousness,  ischemic  chest  pain,  or  acute  myocardial  infarction)  require  immediate  treatment.  With  stable  patients,  more  time  is  afforded  for  review  of  the  12-lead  electrocardiogram  (ECG)  and  rhythm  strip  to  diagnose  the  cardiac  arrhythmia.  Review  of  available  prior  ECGs  may  also  assist  in  arrhythmia  diagnosis.  
SN  - 
PB  - The McGraw-Hill Companies
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55753892
ER  -