1 / 7

Bradycardias and atrioventricular conduction block

Bradycardias and atrioventricular conduction block. Scott Ewing, D.O. November 3, 2005. Sinus Bradycardia. Common in normal individuals during sleep and high vagal tone (athletes and young healthy adults) P wave before every QRS complex and normal P axis PR interval is at least 0.12 s

cshelton
Download Presentation

Bradycardias and atrioventricular conduction block

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Bradycardias and atrioventricular conduction block Scott Ewing, D.O. November 3, 2005

  2. Sinus Bradycardia • Common in normal individuals during sleep and high vagal tone (athletes and young healthy adults) • P wave before every QRS complex and normal P axis • PR interval is at least 0.12 s • Most common pathological cause acute MI • Particularly associated with inferior MI as the inferior myocardial wall and the SA and AV nodes are usually supplied by the RCA

  3. Sick Sinus Syndrome • SSS - dysfunction of the sinoatrial node, with impairment of its ability to generate and conduct impulses • Usually idiopathic fibrosis of the SA node but is also associated with myocardial ischaemia, digoxin, and cardiac surgery • EKG features include • persistent sinus bradycardia • periods of sinoatrial block • sinus arrest • junctional or ventricular escape rhythms • tachycardia­bradycardia syndrome • paroxysmal atrial flutter • atrial fibrillation • Most common EKG feature is an inappropriate, persistent, and often severe sinus bradycardia

  4. Tachycardia­Bradycardia Syndrome • Common in sick sinus syndrome • Characterised by bursts of atrial tachycardia interspersed with periods of bradycardia • Paroxysmal atrial flutter or fibrillation may also occur, and cardioversion may be followed by a severe bradycardia

  5. Sinoatrial Block • Characterised by a transient failure of impulse conduction to the atrial myocardium, resulting in intermittent pauses between P waves • The pauses are the length of two or more P­P intervals

  6. Sinus Arrest • Transient cessation of impulse formation at the sinoatrial node • Manifests as a prolonged pause without P wave • Pause is unrelated to the length of the P­P cycle

  7. Escape Rhythms • Result of spontaneous activity from a subsidiary pacemaker, located in the atria, atrioventricular junction, or ventricles • Takes over when normal impulse formation or conduction fails and may be associated with any profound bradycardia • Junctional escape beat has a normal QRS complex shape with a rate of 40­60 beats/min • Ventricular escape rhythm has broad complexes and is slow (15­40 beats/min)

More Related