Evidence-based On-call

internal medicine

Tachyarrhythmias

Clinical features
Investigations
Therapy
Prevention
Prognosis

Clinical features

Think about cardiac arrhythmias in patients with dyspnoea. ^b

Why?

7% of patients attending hospital with dyspnoea have an arrhythmia. ^b

Expiry date: July 2004
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author	CM Ball
Reviewer	H Oral
CAT Writers	CM Ball , N Shenker , CJ Wotton