Prognosis and duration of disabling effects

Arrhythmias may cause a lot of symptoms or no symptoms.

Benign arrhythmias for which no treatment is needed usually cause minimal functional impairment.

Everyone will have an arrhythmia at some time in their life, the vast majority are not symptomatic, and are usually incidental findings, such as on monitoring.

The consequence of arrhythmias may be none or they may be life – threatening.

Any mobility and care needs are likely to be the result of secondary effects of the arrhythmia such as stroke or heart failure. If evidence suggests that the customer has heart failure or has had a stroke, which may have resulted from an arrhythmia then go to either Heart Failure guidance or Strokes guidance.

All information must be taken into account when considering the duration of disabling effects and the duration of disabling effects must be based on the particular circumstances of the individual claimant.