Ventricular tachycardia

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• Synonyms

  • VT

• Effects

  • Stokes-Adams attack
  • Sinusoidal ECG
  • Atrioventricular dissociation
  • Cannon waves
  • Fusion beats
  • Ventricular fibrillation

• Parents

  • Cardiac arrest
  • Ventricular tachyarrhythmia

• Children

  • Torsades de pointes

• Treatments

  • Implantable defibrillator
  • Defibrillation
  • Radiofrequency catheter ablation

• Description

  • "Rx shock if compromised Otherwise amiodarone or lignocaine If known good LV
  • then procainamide or sotalol If tricyclic implicated
  • then intravenous bicarbonate"