Christopher
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HR: 150-170, 4Lead ECG shows PSVT, 12 lead: PSVT
Booo! Booooo! It is only "PSVT" if you watched it start and stop. That term is a bad term anyways. "Narrow complex tachycardia" and "wide complex tachycardia" are better. SVT isn't a rhythm and apparently only exists to confuse people.
If by "150-170" you meant a ranging heart rate? Only three narrow complex tachycardias meet that definition:
- Sinus tachycardia
- Atrial fibrillation
- Atrial tachycardia (but not a huge range)
- Atrial flutter with variable conduction and "150-170" is the rate displayed by the cardiac monitor's moving average (unlikely)
- Sinus tachycardia
- AVNRT
- AVRT
- Atrial flutter (2:1)
- Atrial tachycardia
- Junctional tachycardia
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