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Terri Townsend1, Ghaith Nahlawi2
1Terri Townsend is the staff educator for Cardiovascular and Outpatient Services, Community Heart and Vascular Physicians at Community Hospital Anderson, Anderson, Indiana.
Abstract:
Most basic dysrhythmia instruction concentrates on the fundamentals of cardiac rhythms and the criteria that make one dysrhythmia different from another. Over the past 2 decades, advances in treatment of acute coronary syndromes have made once-common dysrhythmias very rare. This article provides an overview of a few uncommon dysrhythmias (wide-QRS tachycardia, advanced atrioventricular block, sinoatrial exit block, and atrial fibrillation with complete heart block) that may be encountered when caring for patients with cardiac disorders.
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