This rhythm strip was taken from a 41-year-old male with lymphoma. He had a 5-day history of substernal chest pain, which was increased by lying down and decreased by sitting up and leaning forward.
We have had several cases in which the presenting rhythm was either unavailable or not communicated to hospital providers. In one case, a 25-year-old patient with a reported pulseless, wide-complex ...
The QRSs are narrow and do not occur regularly but have a pattern: short-long-long, short-long-long...., thereby ruling out atrial fibrillation. In the lead II rhythm strip, the baseline continuously ...
Is there a simple way to differentiate a supraventricular tachycardia from a ventricular, wide QRS tachycardia on a rhythm strip? The simplest initial approach is to look at the lead with the most ...