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A young man with tachycardia. Should We Try Adenosine?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

There is a regular narrow complex tachycardia. Thus, it is supraventricular tachycardia. It is important to remember that SVT includes Sinus Tachycardia! Sometimes even Wide Complex Tachycardia is Sinus. See this case in which Lewis leads were necessary to figure this out: Wide Complex Tachycardia.

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A fascinating electrophysiology case. What is this wide complex tachycardia, and how best to manage it?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

She had a single chamber ICD/Pacemaker implanted several years prior due to ventricular tachycardia. The ECG was interpreted as showing atrial flutter with 2:1 conduction. Answer : The ECG above shows a regular wide complex tachycardia. The heart rate could be compatible with that of a 2:1 conducted atrial flutter.

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ECG Blog #451 — Premature Closure.

Ken Grauer, MD

QUESTIONS: Is this rhythm too fast to be sinus tachycardia? Are flutter waves hidden within the QRS and T waves? However, until such time that we know for certain — I think it best to simply describe what we see: PEARL # 1: Realize that for any tachycardia — there are 6 Parameters that need to be assessed. s in Figure-2 ).

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A multicenter analysis of implantable monitoring device-based diagnosis of supraventricular arrhythmia post patent foramen ovale closure: the OCCL-ILR study

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Primary endpoint was the incidence of patients with new onset supraventricular arrhythmia (AF, atrial flutter or any supraventricular tachycardia) lasting >30s, post PFO closure.ResultsA total of 59 patients met the inclusion criteria.

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Wide-complex tachycardia that didn’t follow the rules

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Initial ECG in the ED: Presenting ECG : Wide-complex tachycardia at a rate about 200. This is overwhelmingly likely to be ventricular tachycardia, even if only age and medical history are considered. Nevertheless, the widths of both the QRS complex and the RS duration are similar in both the old ECG and the tachycardia.

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ECG Blog #409 — Every-Other-Beat.

Ken Grauer, MD

RBBB is no longer seen after conversion to sinus rhythm — which supports our suspicion that the intermittent RBBB conduction seen every-other-beat during the tachycardia ( in Figure-1 ) was rate-related. Note that QRS morphology after conversion to sinus rhythm is very similar to QRS morphology of odd-numbered beats during the tachycardia.

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A woman in her 60s with large T-waves. Are they hyperacute, hyperkalemic, or something else?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

First, we have a narrow-complex, regular tachycardia, with a rate of about 135-140. This narrows our differential for the rhythm down to sinus tachycardia, paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT, or SVT), and atrial flutter. They are flutter waves, and the rhythm is 2:1 atrial flutter.