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A young woman with palpitations. What med is she on? With what medication is she non-compliant? What management?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Flecainide : This is a potentially dangerous Na channel blocker which can cause ventricular dysrhythmias including ventricular fibrillation. Before continuing flecainide, he had me get on a treadmill at full dose and at full exercise (18 minutes) and measured the QRS to be certain that the QRS did not lengthen at all. Coincidence?).

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Young Man with a Heart Rate of 257. What is it and how to manage?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The patient was found to have a "concealed" posteroseptal pathway (WPW without delta waves) confirmed to have SVT at EP study and was ablated. Here is the Electrophysilogist's note: "Only 1 pathway attachment could be ablated, the second one deep within the CS could not be ablated with high power.