[Intergenerational care of patients with tachycardiac arrhythmias].

Abstract

Within the last decades the treatment options for patients with arrhythmias have developed from a purely conservative drug treatment to a really curative treatment with removal of the arrhythmogenic substrate by continuously more sophisticated possibilities in the sense of electrophysiological techniques and ablation. Parallel to this, special outpatient departments of cardiac rhythmology for the care of patients with ion channelopathies have also become established in pediatric cardiology centers. Their task is the intergenerational care of whole families, with the aim of primarily preventing malignant arrhythmias by appropriate counselling and guidance.