Acute Coronary Syndrome

Abstract

Chest pain is one of the most common presentations to the emergency and cardiology clinics and most serious of these is acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a life threatening acute emergency. 1 There are a number of complications, which can cause death immediately in patients of ACS which include arrhythmias, cardiogenic shock, progressive heart failure, mechanical cardiac complications and repeat MI. 2-3 Objectives: To determine the frequency of different arrhythmias in patients with acute coronary artery syndrome in the first 24 hours of hospitalization.