Assessment of Arrhythmias Symptom Burden on Patients’ Quality of Life

Abstract

Cardiac arrhythmia is associated with substantial morbidity, mortality, and increase healthcare costs. This disease is a broad diagnosis category that can be separated into atrial arrhythmias, ventricular arrhythmias, conduction system disease, and supraventricular arrhythmias. The treatment of arrhythmias is complex and dependent on the type of arrhythmia. Basic arrhythmias are usually first identified in patients presenting with symptoms such as palpitations or syncope, and confirmed with a 12 lead ECG. Furthermore, it has been shown that when there is an increase in arrhythmias symptom burden that leads to a decrease in quality of life (QOL) for these patients (Abd-Elsayed, 2020).