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Very fast regular tachycardia: 2 ECGs from the same patient. What is going on?

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Is it sinus or is it a supraventricular dysrhythmia? Of academic interest — are the arrhythmias that developed. The Arrhythmia Lesson to be Learned: I was not initially confident about my interpretation of the rhythm in today's 5 tracings. What is the SupraVentricular Rhythm?

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Atrial fibrillation? Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia? Don't look at computer read until AFTER you interpret!

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Atrial dysrhythmias, and atrial fi brillation in particular, are frequently misdiagnosed by computer algorithms and then by the physician who overreads them. How can you avoid overlooking this arrhythmia? M Y A NSWER: In my experience, MAT is the 2nd-most commonly overlooked cardiac arrhythmia ( surpassed only by Atrial Flutter ).

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

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Finally, much of this correlates well with The new Canadian Syncope Arrhythmia Risk Score , just published in 2016, results of which are given below in the Annotated Bibliography. The most recent and probably best study is this: Canadian Syncope Arrhythmia Risk Score. Academic Emergency Medicine., Thiruganasambandamoorthy, V.,