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This educational review outlines the mechanisms, clinical context, and ECG recognition of common arrhythmias including ectopic beats, atrial fibrillation, SVT, VT, and VF.
This article provides an educational review of common arrhythmias, their ECG recognition, clinical context, and treatment mechanisms.
Provides arrhythmia ECG guidance for clinicians; leaves open empirical testing of educational impact on outcomes.
In this third article of the British Journal of Cardiac Nursing’s ECG series, we will examine arrhythmias by abnormal impulse generation. The intention is not to explain every possible rhythm , but rather to review the most common and clinically relevant arrhythmias, and describe they can be recognised on the ECG. We will also place each arrhythmia in clinical context by discussing why it occurs, and how it is treated. Hopefully this process will illustrate the that cause arrhythmias, and deepen the reader’s understanding of the electrical of the heart. The rhythm disturbances that we will cover in this article are as follows: Ectopic beats Atrial fibrillation (AF) and flutter Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) Ventricular tachycardia (VT) Ventricular fibrillation (VF)
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Michael Sampson (2016) conducted a review in Arrhythmias. This educational review outlines the mechanisms, clinical context, and ECG recognition of common arrhythmias including ectopic beats, atrial fibrillation, SVT, VT, and VF.
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