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People who present to the emergency department who are asymptomatic, with unremarkable physical exams, have non-diagnostic EKGs and normal laboratory studies, can safely be sent home and instructed to follow up with their primary care provider or cardiologist. [1] Patients whose palpitations are associated with syncope, uncontrolled arrhythmias ...
The most common symptom of arrhythmia is an awareness of an abnormal heartbeat, called palpitations. These may be infrequent, frequent, or continuous. Some of these arrhythmias are harmless (though distracting for patients) but some of them predispose to adverse outcomes.
The feeling of your heart pounding or racing is known as heart palpitations. Typically, heart palpitations are not anything to worry about, but there are times when you should see a doctor about them.
"Palpitations are one of the most common symptoms primary care providers and cardiologists see in their patients," says Dr. Hagai Yavin, MD, cardiologist and electrophysiologist at Rush University ...
People who have experienced heart palpitations describe their symptoms in interesting and wide-ranging ways, says Dr. Edo Paz, a cardiologist at White Plains Hospital in New York and senior vice ...
There are no specific diagnostic criteria for TIC, and it can be difficult to diagnose for a number of reasons. First, in patients presenting with both tachycardia and cardiomyopathy, it can be difficult to distinguish which is the causative agent. [5] Additionally, it can occur in patients with or without underlying structural heart disease. [6]
In clinical practice, elderly people over age 65 and young athletes of both sexes may have sinus bradycardia. [1] The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in 2011 that 15.2% of adult males and 6.9% of adult females had clinically defined bradycardia (a resting pulse rate below 60 BPM).
In general, patients with more frequent or disabling symptoms warrant some form of prevention. A variety of drugs including simple AV nodal blocking agents such as beta blockers and verapamil , as well as antiarrhythmic drugs may be used, usually with good effect, although the adverse effects of these therapies need to be weighed against ...