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Intensive Care Unit Arrhythmias

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Intensive Care Medicine

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Abstract

Arrhythmias are common in the intensive care unit (ICU) and represent a major source of morbidity and increased length of stay. Arrhythmias are most likely to occur in patients with structural heart disease. The inciting factor for an arrhythmia in a given patient may be a transient imbalance, often related to hypoxia, infection, cardiac ischemia, catecholamine excess (endogenous or exogenous), or an electrolyte abnormality. Management includes correction of these imbalances as well as medical therapy directed at the arrhythmia itself.

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  1. Divisions of Cardiovascular Disease and Critical Care Medicine, Cooper University Hospital, One Cooper Plaza 366 Dorrance, Camden, NJ, 08103, USA

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  1. Department of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Route de Lennik 808, 1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Jean-Louis Vincent MD, PhD, FCCM, FCCP (Head) (Head)

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Hollenberg, S.M. (2007). Intensive Care Unit Arrhythmias. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Intensive Care Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49518-7_39

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