Initial evaluation and management of wide-complex tachycardia: A simplified and practical approach

Laszlo Littmann; Elizabeth G. Olson; Michael A. Gibbs

doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2019.04.027

Initial evaluation and management of wide-complex tachycardia: A simplified and practical approach

Laszlo Littmann, Elizabeth G. Olson, Michael A. Gibbs

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Abstract

The evaluation and treatment of wide QRS-complex tachycardia remains a challenge, and mismanagement is quite common. Diagnostic aids such as wide-complex tachycardia algorithms perform poorly in the real-life setting. The purpose of this review is to offer a simple clinical-electrocardiographic approach for the initial evaluation and management of the adult patient with stable wide-complex tachycardia that does not require recollection of complex guidelines or algorithms.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1340-1345
Number of pages	6
Journal	American Journal of Emergency Medicine
Volume	37
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2019.04.027
State	Published - Jul 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Atrial fibrillation
Electrocardiogram
Supraventricular tachycardia
Ventricular tachycardia
Wide-complex tachycardia
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome

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Emergency Medicine

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