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Types of Arrhythmia and Tampa CPR Classes for Cardiac Emergencies

Most sudden cardiac deaths (SCD) are caused by abnormal heart rhythms called arrhythmias with the most common life-threatening arrhythmia being ventricular fibrillation, which is an erratic firing of impulses from the ventricles. It reduces the heart’s ability to pump blood and death will occur within minutes, if left untreated. Emergency treatment includes cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation where the former keeps enough oxygen in the lungs and gets it to the brain until the normal heart rhythm is restored with an electric shock to the chest (defibrillation).

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Arrhythmia Types:
Arrhythmia is common for all to be classified in two principal ways:
Where in the heart the arrhythmia originates – in the upper chambers or the lower chambers
1.      Lower chamber origin: ventricular arrhythmia
2.      Upper chamber origin: supraventricular origin
Whether the arrhythmia increases or decreases the ticker rate
1.      Tachycardia: Too Fast
2.      Bradycardia: Too Slow

Ventricular- Arrhythmias occurring in the atria (the top chambers of the ticker) are supraventricular (above the ventricles) in origin, whereas ventricular arrhythmias start in the ventricles (the lower chambers of the ticker). The heart’s main pumping chambers are the ventricles, and the majority of the potentially lethal arrhythmias are ventricular in origin.

Supraventricular- Like we have already mentioned that arrhythmias that occur in the atria (the top chambers of the heart) are supraventricular (above the ventricles) in origin which aren’t responsible for dramatic events such as sudden cardiac death, but the most common arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation, is supraventricular and can lead to fatal strokes.

Bradycardia- A healthy ticker normally beats in a steady and coordinated way which slows down or speeds up depending on the body’s needs. The rate at which your heart beats is important because it influences how much oxygenated blood circulates around the body.

The heart rhythm under normal control is referred to as sinus rhythm during which the ticker’s natural pacemaker controls the rhythm. This pacemaker gets affected by the hormones and nervous system of the body that helps in determining the heart rate. Bradycardia is a heartbeat that’s too slow and a heartbeat too fast is called tachycardia.

Arrhythmia Causes:
Pacemaker Problems and Conduction problems (where an electrical pulse’s path is blocked or where the electrical signal somehow circles back to stimulate a second pulse instead of naturally ending).

Symptoms:
Some arrhythmias have no symptoms; while others are dramatically debilitating with some relatively common arrhythmia symptoms being fainting, dizziness, premature beats, palpitations or skipped beats, lightheadedness and fatigue.

Hope, you find this information to be useful.
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