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Morphological Criteria for Discriminating Ventricular Tachycardia from Supraventricular Tachycardia with Aberration

Source Article: Wide Complex Tachycardia –
Morphological Criteria ... Distinguishing #Criteria ... #Cardiology #ECG ... #Differences #Comparison ... #Brugada #Algorithm
Ventricular Tachycardia in Wide Complex Tachycardia - Telemetry Diagnosis
 • Lead V1 - LBBB Criteria
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Lead V1 - LBBB Criteria ... Lead V1 - RBBB Criteria ... #Algorithm # ... VTach #diagnosis #cardiology ... #ekg #ecg #telemetry
T Waves: Benign Early Repolarization vs Hyperacute T Waves vs Peaked T Waves 

BER = Notching
slurring at J-point ... symmetrically peaked #ECG ... #EKG #cardiology ... BenignEarlyRepolarization #Comparison
Left Ventricular Hypertrophy (LVH) Criteria
• Sokolow + Lyon 
 - S V1 + R V5 or
Hypertrophy (LVH) Criteria ... mm • Cornell criteria ... Romhilt + Estes - Point ... #Hypertrophy #ECG ... #EKG #Cardiology
Modified Sgarbossa Criteria - Suspected AMI with LBBB on ECG #Diagnosis #Cardiology #Sgarbossa #Modified #LBBB #Algorithm
Modified Sgarbossa Criteria ... AMI with LBBB on ECG ... #Diagnosis #Cardiology ... Modified #LBBB #Algorithm
EKG in Acute Pulmonary Embolism
The sensitivity and specificity for EKG findings in acute PE are low.
EKG
EKG is helpful in ... other causes of cardio-pulmonary ... Precordial Transition Point ... in relation to ECG ... AcutePE #diagnosis #cardiology
Cardiac Event Monitoring Devices - Compared
Ambulatory ECG (Hotter):
 • Advantages: Continuous recording, records asx events, all
Cardiac Event Monitoring ... Compared Ambulatory ECG ... events, all (most) ECG ... Monitoring #Devices #Comparison ... #cardiology #management
DETROIT CARDIOGENIC SHOCK INITIATIVE ALGORITHM

INCLUSION CRITERIA
Acute Myocardial Infarction
 Ischemic Symptoms
 EKG and/or biomarker evidence of AMI
SHOCK INITIATIVE ALGORITHM ... INCLUSION CRITERIA ... Ischemic Symptoms  EKG ... Fick calculated cardiac ... Initiative #Management #Cardiology
VT versus SVT with Aberration - Interpretation Cheat Sheet

Features favouring VT
● Absence of typical RBBB or
Brugada algorithm ... nadir (lowest point ... Morphology criteria ... Aberration #Aberrancy #Comparison ... #Diagnosis #Cardiology
STEMI Equivalents on ECG
 • Conventional STEMI - Elevation of ST segment at (or 40-60 ms
Equivalents on ECG ... V6 • Sgarbossa criterion ... • Sgarbossa criterion ... #Equivalents #ECG ... #differential #cardiology