This ECG (Figure 1), recorded in the emergency room, shows a wide complex tachycardia at 205 bpm. Wide complex tachycardias are more likely to be ventricular tachycardia (VT) than supraventricular ...
The QRS complex can be wide if aberrancy is present (ie ... aging of the heart. Brief atrial tachycardia is seen very commonly on ambulatory ECG monitoring in the elderly and is frequently ...
The Brugada Criteria are commonly used to determine whether a wide complex tachycardia is from ventricular tachycardia or supraventricular tachycardia with aberrancy. The Brugada criteria ...
On arrival, they found the patient to be in a wide-complex regular tachycardia at 160 beats per minute (bpm) and initiated advanced life support algorithms, which included intravenous amiodarone ...