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ECG Basics - Atrial Rhythms #Cardiology #MedStudent #EKG #Atrial #SVT #Comparison #Table #AFib #AFlutter #MAT #WAP
Comparison #Table #AFib ... #AFlutter #MAT ... #WAP #WPW #SVT # ... ECGEducator
Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome (WPW) is one of several disorders of the electrical system of the heart that
pathway between the atria ... bundle of Kent) may ... supraventricular tachycardia ... reciprocating tachycardia ... ShortPR #Criteria #ECGEducator
Tachycardia - Differential Diagnosis Table - Wide vs Narrow, Regular vs Irregular

Regular Rhythm - Narrow Complex
: • AFib > AFIutter ... variable block >> MAT ... • HyperK vs AF+WPW ... vs PMVT vs AFib ... known QRS • AFib
Anatomical Differential Diagnosis for Arrhythmias
 • SA node: Sinus bradycardia, Sick Sinus Syndrome (SSS)
 • AV
Atria: Premature ... (FAT), Multifocal ... Atrial Tachycardia ... (MAT) • AV node ... Fibrillation (V-Fib
Approach to ECGs - Tachy/Bradyarrhythmias
Tachyarrhythmias - HR > 100
Wide
  (1) VT - DANGER
  (2)
abberancy - N B Afib ... + WPW - DANGER ... (1) Sinus tachycardia ... Multifocal atrial tachycardia ... (MAT) - 3
Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib) Summary

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

Why?
Cardiac:
	• Valvular heart
Irregular wide-complex tachycardia ... branch block or WPW ... control with early Afib ... (< 5% pts with afibb ... right and left atria
Palpitations - Differential Diagnosis Framework

What?
• It is an unpleasant awareness or sensation that the heart is
flutter, or atrial tachycardia ... • Bradycardia-tachycardia ... associated with anxiety may ... brain flow (VT/Vfib ... /Afib/WPW) • Loss
Atrial fibrillation (AF or A-fib) is an abnormal heart rhythm characterized by rapid and irregular beating.
fibrillation (AF or A-fib ... Occasionally there may ... supraventricular tachycardia ... AtrialFibrillation #ECGEducator