bradycardia can happen after MI
- related: sinus bradycardia and nodal blockade, STEMI treatment
- tags: #literature #cardiology
- acute MI can cause bradycardia due to blood supply interruption
- sinus bradycardia is most common
- inferior MI causes profound vagal tone increase. This is usually worse in first 6 hours and then improves
- atropine can actually be helpful for high vagal tone
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treat sinus bradycardia with medications
- atropine removes vagal tone at AV node. If block happens after AV node, then atropine is not useful: bradycardia can happen after MI