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Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias not Associated with Acute Myocardial Infarction

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Modern coronary care units, particularly those in large university medical centers, usually serve as cardiac intensive care units. Of course, patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) are admitted to such units, but so are patients with a variety of cardiac arrhythmias that are not the result of acute MI. Clinicians caring for patients in cardiac intensive care units must be prepared to deal with disorders of sinus node function, supraventricular arrhythmias (including those associated with preexcitation syndromes), and recurrent ventricular arrhythmias. Often the patient has been resuscitated from one or more bouts of sudden cardiac death; to prevent recurrences, a therapeutic program of anti-arrhythmic drugs at times combined with sophisticated pacemaker and cardiac surgical techniques may be needed.

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  1. Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Elliott M. Antman M.D., F.A.C.C (Assistant Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School, Director Samuel A. Levine Cardiac Unit) & John D. Rutherford M.B., F.R.A.C.P., F.A.C.C (Assistant Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Co-Director, Clinical Cardiology Service)

  2. Cardiologist, Green Lane Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand

    John D. Rutherford M.B., F.R.A.C.P., F.A.C.C (Assistant Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Co-Director, Clinical Cardiology Service)

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Antman, E.M., Rutherford, J.D. (1986). Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias not Associated with Acute Myocardial Infarction. In: Coronary Care Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2303-7_5

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