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Torsade in a patient with left bundle branch block: is there a long QT? (And: Left Bundle Pacing).

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

And of course Ken's comments at the bottom) An elderly obese woman with cardiomyopathy, Left bundle branch block, and chronic hypercapnea presented hypoxic with altered mental status. By Smith with comments from our electrophysiologist, Rehan Karim. She was intubated. Bedside cardiac ultrasound showed moderately decreased LV function.