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Wide Complex Tachycardia: Ventricular Tachycardia or Supraventricular Tachycardia with Aberrancy? by Stephen Smith Posted Sat 01 Oct 2011 9:32am Before we start, here is another popular post on wide complex tachycardia . What is the ECG rhythm diagnosis? Wide complex regular tachycardia at a rate of 209, so it is not atrial fibrillation. Which is it? 1) VT 2) SVT with aberrancy (usually AV nodal reentry tachycardia with aberrancy) 3) AV reciprocating tachycardia Read on »

Fusion Beat During Supraventricular Tachycardia: No criterion is absolutely accurate in differentiating wide complex tachycardia by Stephen Smith Posted Mon 03 Oct 2011 8:07am Yesterday, I posted this case of wide complex tachycardia , and some steps to help in differentiating VT from SVT with aberrancy. One step was this: "Do a quick look.... Rehan Karim, to make the point that no criterion or algorithm can make a certain diagnosis of wide complex tachycardia. And so he provided me with the interesting tracing below Read on »

Let us clear the confusion about ventricular tachycardia :Is it a regular or irreguar tachycardia? by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor

Posted Wed 18 Nov 2009 10:01pm Ventricular tachycardia is the most common wide qrs tachycardia.It is generally taught VT is a regular wide qrs tachycardia.It indeed appears regular most of the time... polymorphism obviously will be irregular.Torsades is the typical example. Multifocal ventricular tachycardia(MVT) Every one is aware of multi focal atrial tachycardia.It is surprising Read on »

Fascicular tachycardia : A classification by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor

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Tachycardia by Erica P. Registered Nurse

Posted Wed 01 Oct 2008 8:06pm Nuttin' like a high-altitude climb to get your heart pounding. Read on »

Therapeutic issues in STEMI :Persistent sinus tachycardia following thrombolysis by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 16 Jun 2009 6:10pm Sinus tachycardia in the early hours of STEMI is a very common arrhythmia. This seemingly simple problem can be really worrisome to many cardiologists and give sleepless nights(While the patient may sleep comfortably !) The importance of sinus tachycardia in STEMI primarily lies in answering the following question A. Is it compensatory sinus Read on »

Should we not clarify what exactly we mean by wide qrs tachycardia ? by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor

Posted Fri 18 Sep 2009 10:21pm Wide qrs tachycardia has a unique place in clinical electrocardiography .It is a much fancied and glamorous entity for the simple reason , it continues... QRS tachycardia . (Specifically , VT vs SVT with aberrancy) Some wondered , should we really waste our efforts in differentiating the two . In emergencies it never matters Read on »

Land mark concepts in cardiology : How to localise focal atrial tachycardia with P wave morphology in ECG ? Land mark concepts by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 03 Mar 2009 3:12pm ’t look further ! ) A negative or a biphasic (+/- ) P wave in V 1 is 100% specific for a right atrial tachycardia A positive P in V1 or a biphasic ( –/+ ) P-wave in lead V 1 has 100% sensitivity for a left atrial tachycardia What are the incidence of left and right atrial tachycardia ? RA- 75% LA -25% What are the common focus of right Read on »

What does the term junctional tachycardia mean in current era ? by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor

Posted Mon 16 Nov 2009 10:01pm and categorizing into supra ventricular , junctional, ventricular tachycardias is unique , even as many of these patients are struggling for life ! Initially the tachycardias were labeled with reference to their origin .Later as we recognised the locating the origin is not an easy exercise , we introduced a practical classification : Narrow and wide qrs tachycardia Read on »

What are the “Nine” vulnerable points in the atria for focal atrial tachycardias ? by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor

Posted Fri 04 Mar 2011 11:05am causes for Focal /Ectopic atrial tachycardia are Hypoxic AT -COPD ( Probably the most common cause .If persistent it will degenerate to MAT- AF ) Structural atrial disease... is a less common focus ? They are relatively smooth, lack ridges and joints. Unless the walls of atria are diseased focal tachycardias are less common from these sites . Other Read on »