Flutter with Paced Tachycardia
Report:
Atrial flutter 250/min 4
Electronic pacemaker, atrial-sensing 5
Ventricular rate approximately 120-130/min 1
Comment:
The flutter can be made out as the underlying rhythm during pacing in the two longer ventricular cycles: there is an obvious negative F wave before the pacing spike and another, 6 mm further back, just before the T wave.
The patient’s atrial flutter, with predominant 4:1 block, is shown below (Fig 33a). Ventricular response is often very difficult to control in flutter; this is one of the reasons for pacemaker insertion. However, an atrial-sensing unit would pace the ventricles to its own upper rate limit, in this case about 130/min. The problem is not solved: the flutter has to be abolished or blocked, or the pacemaker converted to a VVI one. Many pacemakers have the mode switch option, converting automatically to VVI mode in the presence of an atrial tachyarrhythmia.
Fig 33b shows a run of regular broad-complex tachycardia.
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