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== Summary ==
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|Description = This is a recording from an older man in the surgical intensive care unit. He was recovering from a motor vehicle accident where he sustained a chest injury from his seat belt. This recording was done after the administration of adenosine intravenously.
This is an interesting cardiogram that shows the termination of a wide complex tachycardia with adenosine. The axis of the EKG is rightward and the QRS is wide at 130ms. Termination with adenosine suggests that this is a supraventricular arrhythmia that is reentrant. Note that the tacycardia slows before it terminates. The termination of the tachycardia is followed by a sinus node arrest and multiple ventricular escape beats. The first pair of beats after the termination of the tachycardia are probably an escape ventricular beat followed by a single echo beat. The second to last beat to the right is the only clear sinus beat.


This patient had a bifasicular block in sinus rhythm.
|Category = [[Case_reports_from_Michael_Rosengarten|Case reports by Michael Rosengarten]]
|Source = EKG World Encyclopedia http://cme.med.mcgill.ca/php/index.php , courtesy of Michael Rosengarten BEng, MD.McGill
|Date = 2012
|Author = Michael Rosengarten BEng, MD.McGill
|Permission = {{by-nc-sa-3.0}}
|other_versions = None
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