Why the study?
The study was conducted to determine the distribution of different types of arrhythmia and their immediate outcomes in children presenting to a pediatric emergency department at a tertiary care hospital.
Population
91 children aged 1 day to 18 years presenting with arrhythmia
Design
Observational analytical cohort study
Authors
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Findings from this single-center pediatric ED arrhythmia cohort should not change practice; leaves open need for multicenter validation.
In a pediatric emergency setting, supraventricular tachycardia is the most common arrhythmia, and standard treatments like amiodarone and propranolol yield good immediate outcomes with low mortality.
Raza et al. (2022) studied this question.
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