Complete Heart Block: Emergency Recognition and Management

Complete heart block can be a reversible drug or potassium problem or a sign of infranodal disease. How to tell the difference and bridge the patient safely to definitive treatment.

Senior Interventional Cardiologist

Senior Interventional Cardiologist
Cardiology articles by Dr A M Thirugnanam covering cath lab decision-making, valve disease, coronary care and wider cardiovascular medicine.

Complete heart block can be a reversible drug or potassium problem or a sign of infranodal disease. How to tell the difference and bridge the patient safely to definitive treatment.
Dr A M Thirugnanam is a senior interventional cardiologist based in Hyderabad, India, known for complex coronary intervention — left main disease, chronic total occlusions and haemodynamically supported angioplasty — and for two procedures presented at international conferences as world-first…
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