Accurate bedside technique for differentiating wide-QRS complex tachycardias.
Patients undergoing open-heart surgery routinely receive temporary atrial pacing wires. The authors present a case report involving the use of these wires to differentiate the origin of a wide-QRS complex tachycardia. The technique, described in detail, should be utilized when appropriate.
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Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York.
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D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013617:Tachycardia, Supraventricular / Q000175:diagnosis*; D017180:Tachycardia, Ventricular / Q000175:diagnosis*