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Arrhythmias are never seen in digitoxicity

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Arrhythmias are never seen in digitoxicity

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How Does Fever Precipitate Arrhythmia in Brugada Syndrome?

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How Does Fever Precipitate Arrhythmia in Brugada Syndrome? This is the proposed mechanism of precipitation of arrhythmias in Brugada syndrome during febrile episodes. This is the proposed mechanism of precipitation of arrhythmias in Brugada syndrome during febrile episodes. have delayed activation and earlier inactivation.

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What is the arrhythmia seen in the highlighted region of the monitor screen shot?

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What is the arrhythmia seen in the highlighted region of the monitor screen shot?

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Brugada Syndrome

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An interesting fact is that many of the persons experience arrhythmias in Brugada syndrome with fever. So there is some relation between fever and precipitation of arrhythmias in Brugada syndrome. Of course, the commonest sustained arrhythmia in general population is atrial fibrillation.

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Evaluation of Ventricular Ectopic Beats

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Sometimes ventricular ectopy can be the forerunner of malignant ventricular arrhythmia. Most of the time ventricular ectopics are quite benign, especially if there is no associated structural heart disease. Occasionally they can be dangerous, mainly if associated with structural heart disease.

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Why is an Implantable Defibrillator NOT Useful Soon After Myocardial Infarction?

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It can automatically detect life threatening ventricular arrhythmias and treat them, either with a shock or, sometimes by overdrive pacing. You may be knowing that one of the causes for inappropriate ICD shocks, is supraventricular arrhythmia, wrongly detected by the defibrillator as a ventricular arrhythmia and giving a shock.

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CRT-P and CRT-D

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ICD is short form for implantable cardioverter defibrillator, used to automatically shock back the heart into action in case of life threatening ventricular arrhythmias. CRT-D is needed in some heart failure patients who have a high risk of life threatening ventricular arrhythmias.