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Instructors' Collection ECGs: Complete AV Block

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This is an interesting case for your students who want to delve into dysrhythmias with an eye on detail. I will start the discussion by admitting that I am not an expert of electrophysiology or complex dysrhythmias. I hope some of our dysrhythmia Gurus will delve into the rhythm and maybe even provide laddergrams.

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Instructors' Collection ECGs: AV Block

ECG Guru

This is an interesting case for your students who want to delve into dysrhythmias with an eye on detail. I will start the discussion by admitting that I am not an expert of electrophysiology or complex dysrhythmias. I hope some of our dysrhythmia Gurus will delve into the rhythm and maybe even provide laddergrams.

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

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Place temporary pacemaker 3. Because she has cardiomyopathy and ventricular dysrhythmias, the pacer included an Implanted Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD) Echo 6 days later after CRT: Normal estimated left ventricular ejection fraction. See this post: How a pause can cause cardiac arrest 2. No wall motion abnormality.

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An adolescent with trauma, chest pain, and a wide complex rhythm

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Accelerated idioventricular rhythm in newborns: a worrisome but benign entity with or without congenital heart disease Here are other examples of Accelerated Idioventricular Rhythm, Usually a Reperfusion "Dysrhythmia" I saw this on the computer. A Patient with Ischemic symptoms and a Biventricular Pacemaker What is it? Is there STEMI?

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

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MAT has at least 3 distinct P-wave morphologies, but there is no single dominant pacemaker (i.e., Atrial dysrhythmias, and atrial fi brillation in particular, are frequently misdiagnosed by computer algorithms and then by the physician who overreads them.

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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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Negative predictors of adverse outcome: Pacemaker Pre-syncope or "near-syncope," but there is still some small risk (5, 18) These last two are identified in studies, but I consider them dangerous signs and symptoms in their own right, as above: 10. —QRS Syncope with Exertion (EGSYS) 7. S yncope while supine (EGSYS) 8. orthostatic vitals b.