Discuss the electrocardiographic algorithms for diagnosis of wide complex tachycardia. A wide QRS complex tachycardia (WCT) is defined as a tachycardia with QRS duration of >120 ms. Distinguishing ...

This ECG is challenging. The rhythm starts as normal sinus rhythm with a right bundle branch block, then a wide-complex tachycardia develops in a left bundle branch block pattern. The important ...

An idioventricular rhythm is very similar to ventricular tachycardia except the ventricular ... in the precordial leads V1 to V6 during the wide complex rhythm. Recall that the morphology of ...

Try to save a rhythm strip for the hospital staff ... The scariest rhythm is polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. EKG findings will include a wide complex, irregular rhythm. A specific type ...

The patient presented with syncope, chest pain and light-headedness. He was found to have wide complex ventricular tachycardia (Vtach). He was cardioverted and then noted to have multiple (more than ...

In previous cases of flecainide toxicity, treatment with sodium bicarbonate, intravenous lipid emulsion and amiodarone have been reported to be effective in preventing cardiovascular collapse and ...

The first EKG shows a regular, narrow-complex tachycardia at 143 bpm. The broad term for these rhythms is supraventricular tachycardia which, if analyzed, only means a rhythm originating above the ...

1 Department of Accident and Emergency, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK 2 Department of Cardiological Science, John Radcliffe Hospital A 29 year old man presented to the emergency department for ...

Admission examination of the infant revealed general conditions of wellness, a heart rate of 128 beats/min (bpm) with normal heart sound, regular cardiac rhythm and no heart ... there was no ...