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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 Differential Diagnosis is: SVT with aberrancy(#) [AVNRT vs. WPW (also called AVRT*)] Atrial flutter with 1:1 conduction, with aberrancy VT coming from the anterior fascicle ( fascicular VT )@ *AVRT = AV Reciprocating Tachycardia (Tachycardic loop that uses both the AV node and an accessory pathway.

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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

Atrial flutter with 2:1 conduction. The atrial flutter rate is approximately 200 bpm, with 2:1 AV conduction resulting in ventricular rate almost exactly 100 bpm. Further history revealed she had new onset atrial flutter soon after her aortic surgery, and was put on flecainide approximately 1 month ago.

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Electrical instability in a healthy 50 year old. How to manage?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Previously healthy, taking no medication and exercising regularly. No anginal symptoms asymptomatic during physical exercise. That said there were no clinical symptoms or ECG findings suggestive of ongoing ischemia. Below in Figure-1 is this patient's admission ECG. How will you manage this patient? or is wider than 130 msec.,