Certainly, attempts of some patients to resort to the help of unfamiliar medicines are unacceptable only because they helped someone from their relatives or friends. We know the case when the patient nearly lost his life, taking an antiarrhythmic drug, instead of a drug that accelerates intracardiac conduction, slowing it down. And the reason for everything is ignorance of one's illness and self-medication.
Well, how should the patient behave in a heart rhythm disorder? If this happens for the first time and does not significantly affect the general state of health, you should nevertheless seek advice from a doctor. If the attack is delayed, dyspnea and general weakness increase, urgent medical attention is needed. Only a doctor, using various methods of examination, and especially electrocardiography, can, in each specific case, determine the correct treatment. It depends on the underlying disease, against which the arrhythmia developed, its shape (paroxysmal or constant), the heart rate (tachy- or bradyform), the location of the pathological cardiac impulses (sinus node, atrium or ventricles). You see how many factors the doctor has to consider for choosing the appropriate treatment.
The majority of patients whose cardiac arrhythmia has acquired a permanent character or periodically repeats, are under dispensary supervision and use individually selected antiarrhythmic drugs. This allows them for a long time to maintain a sufficient level of blood supply to the body and prevent premature depletion of the heart muscle. Doctor's advice and gradually accumulating experience help our patients to cope with arrhythmia attacks on their own. A little about the use of other means that do not require special rigor when using them.
With arrhythmias with an increased heart rate, you can independently use the tinctures of valerian and motherwort, corvalol, valocordin, and in arrhythmias with a rare pulse - drops of Zelenin containing the extract of belladonna.
Opportunities of doctors have increased with the introduction into practice of various methods of electropulse treatment. It is, first of all, the electrical depolarization of the heart (EMF) with atrial fibrillation. Highly effective use of this method in an extremely emergency situation - with ventricular fibrillation - has allowed to withdraw from the state of clinical death and save the lives of many thousands of patients. Doctors successfully mastered and implanted artificial heart rate drivers who imposed on the heart the necessary frequency of contractions in patients with complete atrioventricular blockade. This operation is used in many major cities of our country; and including in Sverdlovsk, in the cardiosurgical center.
We have acquainted you with the principles of secondary prevention and treatment of the most common diseases of the cardiovascular system. We hope that this information is used by interested readers to slow down the course of the disease, to prevent possible complications, and in this way together with the doctors to improve their health.
In such a complex matter as the fight against cardiovascular diseases, the role of the cardiological service is great.
In recent years, scientific research has been significantly expanded and detailed recommendations for timely diagnosis, proactive prevention, effective treatment of cardiovascular diseases have been obtained.