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Morphological Criteria for Discriminating Ventricular Tachycardia from Supraventricular Tachycardia with Aberration

Source Article: Wide Complex Tachycardia –
Tachycardia #Aberration #Aberrancy ... Distinguishing #Criteria #Cardiology ... #VTach #SVT #Differences ... #Comparison #Brugada ... #Algorithm
Ventricular Tachycardia - Management Algorithm
Wide Complex Tachycardia: Rate > 100, QRS > 120
DDx: Ventricular tachycardia, SVT
Tachycardia - Management ... Algorithm Wide ... with aberrancy, ... Tachycardia #VTach #Management ... #Algorithm #cardiology
VT versus SVT with Aberration - Interpretation Cheat Sheet

Features favouring VT
● Absence of typical RBBB or
VT versus SVT with ... Brugada algorithm ... #Aberration #Aberrancy ... #Comparison #Diagnosis ... #Cardiology
Treatment of Stable Wide-Complex Tachycardia
Regular
 • If ventricular tachycardia or uncertain rhythm:
    -
cardioversion • If known SVT ... with aberrancy, ... nodal agents (e.g ... Tachycardia #Treatment #management ... #cardiology #algorithm
Tachycardia - Differential Diagnosis and Management - Narrow vs Wide, Regular vs Irregular
Narrow - Regular:
Use P
Diagnosis and Management ... Aberrancy, HyperK ... Differential #Diagnosis #Management ... #cardiology #wide ... #narrow #algorithm
Myocarditis 

5 Principles of
Myocarditis:
1. Build clinical suspicion
2. Decide on EMBx
3. Manage acute cardiac injury
4. Manage chronic
Pericarditis, Tamponade EKG ... - AV block, Aberrancy ... , VT/VF, Myocardial ... Myocarditis #diagnosis #management ... #cardiology #summary
ECG of a 55-year-old man who presented to the ER with chest pain 
Computer interpretation: “Nonspecific
to the ER with chest ... : “Nonspecific ST ... pattern: 1. ... #Clinical #Cardiology ... #EKG #STEMI #InferoPosterior
Bradycardia
1) First Steps: IV, O2, Monitors, ECG, Pads on patient, Crash Cart in room. Is patient
SOB from CHF, Chest ... -10mcg/min IV Set ... Set pacemaker to ... #differential #management ... #cardiology
Pericarditis - Definition and Diagnostic Criteria
Acute Pericarditis 
 • Inflammatory pericardial syndrome to be diagnosed with
) pericarditic chest ... new widespread ST-elevation ... depression on ECG ... imaging technique (CT ... diagnosis #criteria #cardiology
Vasospastic (Prinzmetal) Angina
Definition / Epidemiology:
 • Rest angina attributed to coronary artery vasospasm.
 • Patients often
Recurrent anginal chest ... associated with ST ... changes on tele/ECG ... Prinzmetal #Angina #cardiology ... #diagnosis #management