DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2018.v06i09.003

Pages: 3239-3246

Acute myocardial infarction is a major public health problem in developing countries. The incidence of coronary artery disease varies from 20-30 % of the cardiac cases admitted in any general hospital. Cardiac arrhythmias are frequent, serious complications of acute myocardial infarction and are associated with a 7 to 17 % increase in mortality. The extent to which arrhythmias are a direct cause of death in acute myocardial infarction has been estimated from clinical and pathological studies, but there has been little electrocardiographic documentation of the immediate pre-terminal rhythms. Despite several breakthrough treatment modalities have emerged, Arrhythmias is major cause of death in Acute Myocardial infarction(AMI), it still remains as a major cause of mortality and morbidity. The study aimed to study the nature and the types of arrhythmias occurring in the first 48 hours of acute myocardial infarction and to know the site of AMI. This descriptive observational study was conducted in the Cardiac ICU (coronary care unit) at Mahatma Gandhi Medical college Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. 110 patients who presented with Acute Myocardial Infarction were studied.