title: Assessment and treatment of patients with acute unstable bradycardia.
abstract: Bradycardia is a slow heart rate that can lead to cardiac arrest or occur after initial resuscitation following cardiac arrest. This article provides information on acute unstable bradycardia and common arrhythmias. It focuses on the assessment of patients with acute bradycardia and how the presence or absence of adverse clinical features, in conjunction with an arrhythmia, dictates the necessity and choice of treatment.
authors.affiliation: Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, South Yorkshire. jennie.swift@rothgen.nhs.uk
authors.forename: Jennie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Swift
mesh_terms: D001919:Bradycardia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D006113:United Kingdom