Category Archives: Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities

By: Lifestyle Desk | New Delhi | September 8, 2020 5:30:33 pm Arrhythmias can be caused due to a variety of reasons such as high blood pressure, diabetes, sleep apnea, blocked arteries, structural and valvular abnormalities, hyper and hypo thyroidism, familial electrical disorders, a heart attack and related scarring of the heart tissue and infection including the most recent COVID-19. Continue reading →

COVID-19 and its effects on heart disease: How to create a system to safeguard patients during pandemic | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspiStock Images The novel coronavirus pandemic has caused unprecedented devastation across the globe. Continue reading →

New Delhi | September 8, 2020 9:14:35 pm Written by Sunil Sathe and Viveka Kumar When 27-year-old Rima Singh complained of recurring chest pain, her family thought it was due to indigestion or a muscle strain. However, when one day the pain became unbearable, she was rushed to the hospital. Continue reading →

By the definition of Tintinallis Emergency Medicine, hyperkalemia is a measured serum potassium of more than 5.5 mEq/L.1 There is a bit of discrepancy to this value; some texts cite it as 5.0 mEq/L. Continue reading →

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) Several otherwise healthy college athletes with COVID-19 have myocarditis inflammation of the heart. You dont really see the virus molecule in the heart, you see the bodys response to the virus, says Dr. Raghu Tadikamalla, a cardiologist at the Allegheny Health Network. Continue reading →

Patients with COVID-19 who were admitted to an intensive care unit were 10 times more likely than other hospitalized COVID-19 patients to suffer cardiac arrest or heart rhythm disorders, according to a new study. According to researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA, USA) who conducted the study, the results suggest that cardiac arrests and arrhythmias suffered by some patients with COVID-19 are likely triggered by a severe, systemic form of the disease and are and not the sole consequence of the viral infection. The findings, which differ significantly from early reports that showed a high incidence of arrhythmias among all COVID-19 patients, provide more clarity about the role of the novel coronavirus, SARS-COV-2, and the disease it causes, COVID-19, in the development of arrhythmias, including irregular heart rate (atrial fibrillation), slow heart rhythms (bradyarrhythmia) or rapid heart rate that stops by itself within 30 seconds (non-sustained ventricular tachycardia) Continue reading →

Patients with COVID-19 who were admitted to an intensive care unit were 10 times more likely than other hospitalized COVID-19 patients to suffer cardiac arrest or heart rhythm disorders, according to a new study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine. Researchers say the results suggest that cardiac arrests and arrhythmias suffered by some patients with COVID-19 are likely triggered by a severe, systemic form of the disease and are not the sole consequence of the viral infection. Continue reading →

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has withdrawn its emergency use authorization (EUA) for two drugs -- hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine -- to treat hospitalized Covid-19 patients, saying that they are unlikely to be effective and could carry potential risks. Continue reading →

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The most common types of abnormal heart rhythms are: Tachycardia means that your heart is beating too fast. For example, a normal heart beats 60 to 100 times per minute in adults. Continue reading →