He presented to urgent care and was found to be in wide complex tachycardia at the rate of about 200 bpm (Figure 1). The patient was given diltiazem intravenously and converted to atrial flutter ...

The Brugada Criteria are commonly used to determine whether a wide complex tachycardia is from ventricular tachycardia or supraventricular tachycardia with aberrancy. The Brugada criteria ...

The wide complex is simply artifact from patient movement, however may be mistaken for ventricular tachycardia.

Ventricular tachycardia is an abnormally fast heart ... leverage QRS polarity direction and shifts to differentiate wide QRS complex tachycardias. Strong diagnostic accuracy is demonstrated ...