Assessment of Frequency and Clinical characteristics of Cardiac dysrhythmia-diagnosed patients over a period of six months in St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College Adult Emergency Department
| dc.contributor.author | Fitsum, Filmon | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-01-04T08:08:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Abstract Background: Cardiac dysrhythmias are irregularities in the heartbeat, abnormalities in the rate (too fast or too slow) or abnormalities in conduction. They are commonly encountered medical problem in emergency department and a common cause of morbidity and mortality necessitating a study on their frequency and clinical characteristics. Primary aim of this study was to assess the frequency and clinical characteristics of diagnoses of cardiac dysrhythmias in St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College Adult Emergency Department over 06 months. Methods and materials: A cross-sectional study was conducted from April 1, 2022 to September 30, 2022 in adult emergency department of SPHMMC, Addis Ababa, by reviewing the charts of 181 patient’s Data, data was entered to Epi-info 7 and exported to IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 25 for analysis. Result: A total of 181 cases were revised and among those 100 (55.2%) were female and 81(44.8%) were male. The majority of patients were above 50 years old and the mean age of participates was 54.6 ranging from 18 to 95 years. Atrial fibrillation (N=87, 46.7%) is the most common cardiac dysrhythmia followed by brady-dysrhythmia (N=36, 19.3%), conduction system disturbance (N=19, 13.1%) and PSVT (N=16, 8.4%). The commonest symptom at presentation is SOB and palpitation. Majority of patients were cardio-vascular stable. Digoxin, metoprolol and atropine were mostly used to control most of the dysrhythmias. Conclusion and Recommendation: Cardiac dysrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, brady dysrhythmia and PSVTs are frequent in emergency department and hence concerned body should focus on optimizing short term such as on emphasizing antiarrhythmic medication and defibrillator use and on long term strategy such as opening cardiac center. Keywords: Clinical, Dysrhythmia, Emergency | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repo.sphmmc.edu.et/handle/123456789/699 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | Clinical | |
| dc.subject | Dysrhythmia | |
| dc.subject | Emergency | |
| dc.title | Assessment of Frequency and Clinical characteristics of Cardiac dysrhythmia-diagnosed patients over a period of six months in St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College Adult Emergency Department | |
| dc.type | Thesis |