Vtach Vs Svt Ecg. The most important distinction is whether the rhythm is ventricular vt or supraventricular svt with aberrancy as this will significantly influence how you manage the patient. It is clearly true that v tach is a more life threatening rhythm and that the treatment mode is very different from svt.
Regardless of etiology and ecg ventricular tachycardia is always a potentially life threatening arrhythmia which requires immediate attention. The most important distinction is whether the rhythm is ventricular vt or supraventricular svt with aberrancy as this will significantly influence how you manage the patient. With sinus tach the p waves and t.
However on closer inspection there are signs of av dissociation with superimposed p waves visible in v1.
Svt is always more symptomatic than sinus tach. Increased automaticity uncommon if an irritable focus of the terminal purkinje cells discharges at a rapid rate 150 bpm this will produce a qrs complex as discussed previously wide 0 12 sec bizarre shaped. This ecg is a difficult one. Or iii being unable to attain 95 100 certainty in.