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Friday, May 1, 2009

Answer to Quiz 3:

Ans: Supra-ventricular Tachycardia with Aberrant conduction.

Explanation:

Four Brugada Criteria for Diagnosis of Ventricular Tachycardia:

1. Lack of an RS complex in the precordial leads

2. Whether the longest interval in any precordial lead from the beginning of the R wave to the deepest part of the S wave, when an RS complex is present is greater than 100 ms

3. Whether atrioventricular dissociation is present

4. Whether both leads V1 and V6 fulfilled classic criteria for ventricular tachycardia.


Four-step Brugada algorithm for the diagnosis of wide complex tachycardia.

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