Author/Editor		Mažič, Matej; Kešpert, Branko
Title		Motnje srčnega ritma ob srčnem zastoju in uporaba antiaritmikov
Translated title		Peri-arrest arrhytmias and antiarrhytmic drugs
Type		članek
Source		In: Bručan A, Gričar M, Vajd R, editors. Urgentna medicina: izbrana poglavja. Zbornik 10. mednarodni simpozij o urgentni medicini; 2003 jun 11-14; Portorož. Ljubljana: Slovensko združenje za urgentno medicino,
Publication year		2003
Volume		str. 364-7
Language		slo
Abstract		The treatment of all arrhytmias poses two basic question: how is the patient and what is the arrhytmia. The presenee or absence of certain adverse signs or symptoms will dictate the appropriate treatment for most arrhytmias: clinical evidence of low cardiac output, heart failure, excessice tachycardia or bradycardia. The following systematic approach can be aplied to the analysis of all rhytm strips: is there electrical activity, what is the ventricular rate, is the QRS rhytm regular or irregular, is the QRS complex width normal or prolonged, is atrial activity present, how is atrial activity reolated to ventricular activity. Peri-arrest arrhitmias is broad complex tachycardia, bradycardia, atrial fibrillation, narrow complex tachycardia). Heart rhytms associated with cardiac arrest can be divided into two groups: ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia, and other rhitms. The latter includes both asystole and pulseless electrical activity. We are three options available in the immediate treatment of arrhytmias: antiarrhytmic drugs, defibrillation and cardioversion, cardiac pacing.
Descriptors		INTENSIVE CARE UNITS HEART ARREST VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS