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Palpitations - Differential Diagnosis Framework

What?
• It is an unpleasant awareness or sensation that the heart is
flutter, or atrial tachycardia ... • Bradycardia-tachycardia ... • Ventricular tachycardia ... AVNRT Red Flag Symptoms ... (VT/Vfib/Afib/WPW
Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

Symptoms:
• Palpitations, light-headedness, dizziness, dyspnea, exercise intolerance, chest pain, near-syncope, syncope.

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
A-Fib) Summary Symptoms ... Irregular wide-complex tachycardia ... branch block or WPW ... possibly better: • Symptom
Tachycardia - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Narrow-Complex:
 • Regular: Sinus Tachycardia, Junctional Tachycardia, Atrial Tachycardia, Atrial Flutter, AVRT
Tachycardia - Differential ... Regular: Sinus Tachycardia ... , Junctional Tachycardia ... , Atrial Tachycardia ... WPW), AVnRT (ie
Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome (WPW) is one of several disorders of the electrical system of the heart that
Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome (WPW ... WPW is caused by ... supraventricular tachycardia ... reciprocating tachycardia ... MedStudent #EKG #WPW
Supraventricular Tachycardias - Pathophysiology
Conduction pathways through SA Node, Atrium, AV Node, Bundle of His, and Ventricle
Supraventricular Tachycardias ... Ventricle • Sinus Tachycardia ... • Atrial Tachycardia ... Nodal Reentry Tachycardia ... • AV Reentry Tachycardia
Narrow Complex Tachycardias (Simplified)

Irregular Narrow Complex Tachycardia:
 1. Atrial fibrillation
	- Usually the correct answer
 2. Multifocal
Narrow Complex Tachycardias ... Narrow Complex Tachycardia ... Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia ... Narrow Complex Tachycardia ... Sinus tachycardia
Lead AVR on ECG
1. Acute myocardial infarction: ST elevation > 1.5 mm in aVR, indicative of
findings: Sinus tachycardia ... (AVRT) in WPW: ... Narrow complex tachycardia ... , AVRT, atrial tachycardia ... more of AVRT in WPW
Tachycardia - Differential Diagnosis Table - Wide vs Narrow, Regular vs Irregular

Regular Rhythm - Narrow Complex
Tachycardia - Differential ... Narrow Complex Tachycardia ... - Wide Complex Tachycardia ... Narrow Complex Tachycardia ... • HyperK vs AF+WPW
Treatment of Stable Wide-Complex Tachycardia
Regular
 • If ventricular tachycardia or uncertain rhythm:
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Stable Wide-Complex Tachycardia ... If ventricular tachycardia ... with AF (AF + WPW ... polymorphic ventricular tachycardia ... #WideComplex #Tachycardia
Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome (WPW) Study Card #Pathophysiology #Diagnosis #Cardiology #MedStudent #EKG #WPW #WolffParkinsonWhite #DeltaWave #ShortPR #Criteria #ECGEducator
Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome (WPW ... MedStudent #EKG #WPW