Treatment for mat includes.
Mat treatment cardiology.
Your doctor may also prescribe medications like certain beta blockers or calcium channel blockers that have proved effective in.
Usually treatment of the patient s underlying.
This usually resolves the arrhythmia.
Improving blood oxygen levels giving magnesium or potassium through a vein stopping medicines such as theophylline which can increase heart rate.
Once those are more controlled the heart irregularity will likely get better.
Multifocal or multiform atrial tachycardia mat is an abnormal heart rhythm specifically a type of supraventricular tachycardia that is particularly common in older people and is associated with exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease copd.
Magnesium and potassium may be given intravenously to treat mat.
Beta blockers should be considered as first choice provided that pulmonary disease does not limit its use.
If you have a condition that can lead to mat that condition should be treated first.
Treatments used by doctors to correct.
Mat has previously been described by terms such as chaotic atrial rhythm or tachycardia chaotic atrial mechanism and repetitive paroxysmal mat.