It’s 2:00 am in the Main ED and you’re racing to get caught up on the board when a nurse comes to notify you about a patient who is still waiting to be seen. A quick glance at the triage chief complaint reads “Cough and fevers x 2 days.” The Read more…
Here is the EKG: The first interpretation would be to figure out the differential diagnosis for a regularly irregular rhythm in coupled beats. Without looking into more rare causes of coupled beats, the common causes includes atrial bigeminy, ventricular bigeminy, second degree AV block, and atrial flutter with variable conduction. Read more…
Thanks to Dr. Coquillon for today’s Morning Report! SVT During an episode of SVT the pulse rate is 140-250 beats per minute (bpm) Most often due to the junctional tachycardias, atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia (AVNRT) or atrioventricular re-entrant tachycardia (AVRT). SVT is caused by: Abnormalities of impulse conduction (re-entrant Read more…