In this episode, Dave is joined by Tarlan Hedayati, MD, to discuss Tachycardia.

Dr.Hedayati is a practicing Emergency Physican in Cook County, Chicago. She is also the Associate Professor and Chair of Education for the Emergency Medicine Department. 

Also In This Episode

• Defining Tachycardia
• Stable vs. Unstable vs. Cardiac arrest
• Sinus vs. Not sinus 
• P and QRS
• Narrow vs. Wide
• Regular vs. Irregular
• History of presenting illness matters
• ECG Tracing example 1,2,3,4
  • What's the polarity?
  • LBBB
  • Regular and wide
  • SVT with LBBB
• Fusion Beat: Wide QRS + Narrow QRS
• Capture Beat: Narrow QRS
• Treatment 
  • Procainamide vs. Amiodarone
• Irregular wide complex Tachycardia
• ECG Tracing example 5
  • Polymorphic VT
• ECG Tracing example 6
  • A Fib with RVR and LBBB
• ECG Tracing example 7
  • A Fib with RVR in WPW
• ECG Tracing example 8
  • Sometimes the QRS is too wide
• ECG Tracing example 9
  • Syncope
• ECG Tracing example 10
  • Fascicular VT

 

Connect with Tarlan Hedayati: 

Twitter: @HedayatiMD https://twitter.com/HedayatiMD

 

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