Tachycardia

Diagnosis and treatment

  1. Diagnosis
  2. Treatment
  3. Scores
  4. Pharmaceuticals
  5. ESC recommandations

Treatment

  1. Treatment of narrow QRS complexes tachycaridas.
  2. Treatment of wide QRS complex tachycardias

Treatment of wide QRS complex tachycardias

  1. Non sustained wide QRS complexes tachycardia < 30 sec, well tolerated and not recurrent
  2. Sustained tachycardia > 30 sec

Sustained tachycardia > 30 sec

  1. Torsades de pointes
  2. VT or ventricular flutter
  3. Digitalis intoxication
  4. TV or wide QRS tachycardia and unknown diagnosis

Digitalis intoxication

Digitalis intoxication

Digitalis intoxication, sometimes bidirectional tachycardia as on this ECG.

Digitale antidote i.v. Maintained K >4mEq