Related Subjects:
| Classical Ventricular Tachycardia
| Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardia
| Ventricular Fibrillation
| Resuscitation - Adult Tachycardia Algorithm
| Resuscitation - Advanced Life Support
| Atrial Flutter
| Atrial Fibrillation
| Wolff-Parkinson White syndrome (WPW)
| Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
Treat any regular broad complex tachycardia as VT rather than an SVT with aberrant conduction. Look for AV dissociation signs - irregular notching of the QRS complex, capture beats and fusion beats. A past history of ischaemic heart disease is associated with a >95% chance that broad complex tachycardia is VT.
Classical VT is by far the most common cause of wide complex regular tachycardia, and there is no perfectly reliable way to distinguish classic VT with all its dangers from idiopathic VT or SVT with aberrancy on the surface 12-lead ECG. Treat as Classical VT - follow Adult tachycardia algorithm above
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Broad complex Tachycardia can be divided on basis of regularity
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VT
ECG findings that favour VT (for post hoc analysis - treat as VT)
Management
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