Arrhythmia of the heart - treatment

For patients, the classification of arrhythmia is most important, depending on the heart rate:

• bradycardia - less than 60 beats per minute;
• tachycardia - increased heart rate over 90 beats per minute;
• extrasystole - shortening of the heart out of turn;
• cardiac blockade - when some parts of the heart do not carry out impulses.

Symptoms of arrhythmia

Depending on this classification, the patient will have symptoms of arrhythmia and treatment:

1. With tachycardia, the patient can feel:

• interruptions in the heart;
• dips in the work of the heart;
• high heart rate;
• pain behind the sternum;
• a panic condition;
• lack of air.

Sometimes a tachycardia can be physiological, that is, it can arise as a result of stress, severe physical exertion. In this case, they say that sinus breathing arrhythmia has developed and no treatment is required. However, if the patient can not justify the development of tachycardia, then cardiac arrhythmia should be treated, because some types of tachycardia, for example, ventricular, require emergency hospitalization, since cardiac arrest may occur.

2. Bradycardia manifests itself:

• decreased heart rate;
• general weakness;
• fainting;
• cold sweat;
• pallor of the skin.

Bradycardia can indicate the development of coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, a sharp drop in pressure, but the main complication of this condition is cardiac arrest.

3. With extrasystole, patients feel an "extra" push. With some types of extrasystoles, patients live for years and they do not cause complications, but sometimes extrasystoles occur with organic damage of the heart: vices, myocarditis, cardiosclerosis and in such cases immediate treatment of extrasystolic arrhythmia is required.

4. Symptoms in heart block are the same as in extrasystoles, but this is a more serious condition, which often leads to cardiac arrest and death. That is why it is important to start treatment of cardiac arrhythmia in a timely manner.

Arrhythmia of the heart: principles of treatment

1. Drug treatment of respiratory arrhythmia.
2. Radiofrequency ablation - cauterization of a specific area of ​​the heart.
3. The pacemaker is an instrument capable of supporting the rhythm of the heart, and at the same time, it also carries out round-the-clock monitoring of the heart rate.
4. A cardioverter defibrillator is a device that is installed in patients with a high risk of unexpected cardiac arrest. When stopped, it automatically starts the procedure for defibrillation and pacing.
5. Hybrid therapy.
6. Treatment of cardiac arrhythmias with folk remedies.

Methods of treatment of atrial fibrillation

When the arrhythmia is detected for the first time, the physician begins medical therapy, which can reduce the clinic of the disease. However, according to statistics, for example, in the treatment of paroxysmal arrhythmia, drug therapy helps only in 10-15% of cases. That is why the modern treatment of cardiac arrhythmia implies a hybrid therapy, that is, a combination of several techniques in one patient.

Of course, the choice of the main method of treatment will depend on the type of arrhythmia, the age of the patient, the underlying disease, the presence of concomitant pathologies. However, medicine does not stand still, and new methods appear that will significantly improve the patient's quality of life, for example, minimally invasive surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation - radiofrequency ablation.

Recently, it has become fashionable to get involved in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmia with folk remedies, including the treatment of arrhythmia with herbs. It should be clearly understood that this method has the right to exist only as one of the variants of hybrid therapy, but in no way an independent type of treatment. Many herbs are really able to reduce, and sometimes remove the clinic arrhythmia, but it must be remembered that this is symptomatic therapy, and the underlying disease remains untreated.