What are treatment modalities for arrhythmias?
What are treatment modalities for arrhythmias? Cardioversion/Defibrillation – when the heart is beating dangerously fast or irregularly, a shock may be delivered to the heart muscle to restore a normal rhythm. Anti-bradycardia pacing – most ICD's provide back-up pacing to prevent too slow of a heart rhythm. What is the difference between arrhythmia and dysrhythmia? The terms dysrhythmia and arrhythmia differ mainly in a linguistic sense. “Dys” is a Greek prefix that means bad, ill, hard, or difficult. “A” is another Greek prefix that generally means not or without. Therefore, dysrhythmia essentially means “bad rhythm,” and arrhythmia basically means “without...