Most common arrhytmias in patients with spinal cord injury
Introduction: The spinal cord injury is a public heatlh problem, and it can have three different origens: traumatic, compressive and congenital. The consequences are partial or total insufficiency of the spinal cord due to the interruption of motor and sensory nervous tracts. This injury results in clinical manifestations such as: autonomic dysreflexia, conduction disorders and loss of pain and touch sensitivity. Objectives: To describe the main cardiac conduction disorders on patients with spinal cord injury trough the guiding question: “What are the most common arrhytmic disorders in patients with spinal cord injury?” Methods: A integrative review was made in the MEDLINE and LILACS databases combining the MeSH descriptors: ‘Arrhytmias, cardiac” and “Spinal cord injuries”. Furthermore, the inclusion criteria was articles produced in the past ten years that answer the guiding question. Results: After na analysis, 6 out of 15 articles were selected to compound this review. The main disorders founded were tachycardia, sinus node dysfunction, atrial and ventricular fibrillation and bradychardia, the most founded disorder. There was also descripted the possibility for these patients to envolve into a distributive choque. Conclusion: Bradycardia was the main arrhythmic impairment found in patients with spinal cord injury, followed by ventricular and atrial fibrillation and tachycardia, with the severity of bradyarrhythmias being associated with the level and severity of the spinal cord injury