Too Nervous About the Inservice To Be Bored Review

After managing the ABC’s for a STEMI patient, you find out the cath lab is being used and cards cannot take the patient yet. You go back to reassess and the monitor shows a wide complex tachycardia at a rate of 110! It looks on the monitor like you have some sort of AV disassociation.

The ECG may look like this...
ECG

 

1. What is this?
Accelerated Idioventricular Rythm

 

2. What is the appropriate treatment for this disease?
Kind of a trick question – don’t do anything.This post-MI rythm is usually transient and does not predict worse outcome.

 

By Dr. Andrew Grock and Dr. Sally Bogoch

 

References

Tintinalli’s, 7th ed

LIFTL – http://lifeinthefastlane.com/ecg-library/aivr/

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