Atrial Tachycardia (Clinical Approaches to Tachyarrhythmias)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: January 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9780879934422
Subjects: Cardiovascular medicine; Medical / Nursing; Cardiac Arrythmia; Medical; diagnosis; Tachycardia; Cardiology; ARRHYTHMIA; Medical / Cardiology; Atrial arrhythmias; Electrophysiology; Tachycardia, Supraventricular
First sentence: Before the modern era of invasive electrophysiology, when treatment for a regular, narrow complex tachycardia was limited to drugs such as digitalis glycosides or vasopressor infusion, the term paroxysmal atrial tachycardia (PAT) was adequate to distinguish the disorder from ventricular tachycardia.