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** Atrial Flutter
** Atrial Flutter
** Atrial Fibrillation
** Atrial Fibrillation
Pathophysiology
Patient characteristics
History
Physical Examination
Investigations
Differential diagnosis
Treatment and Follow up
Prognosis
* AV node arrhythmias
* AV node arrhythmias
** AV junctional tachycardia
** AV junctional tachycardia

Revision as of 15:49, 28 April 2011

Tachycardia's are arranged as follows;

Supra-ventricular tachycardia

  • Atrial arrhythmias
    • Sinus Tachycardia
    • Atrial Tachycardia
    • Atrial Flutter
    • Atrial Fibrillation

Pathophysiology Patient characteristics History Physical Examination Investigations Differential diagnosis Treatment and Follow up Prognosis

  • AV node arrhythmias
    • AV junctional tachycardia
    • AVNRT
    • AVRT

Ventricular tachycardia

  • Ventricular tachycardia
  • Ventricular flutter
  • Ventricular fibrillation
  • Torsade de Pointes

Differentiation between SVT and VT