Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) Syndrome is a combination of the presence of a congenital accessory pathway and episodes of tachyarrhythmia.
Cardiology
Wide Complex Tachycardia
TYPES Ventricular Tachycardia (VT) Wide complex SVT Accelerated idioventricular rhythm Ventricular Fibrillation (VF) VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA see separate document WIDE COMPLEX SVT see VT document for Brugada algorithm ACCELERATED IDIOVENTRICULAR RHYTHM (AIVR) encountered in an inferior AMI often causes haemodynamic compromise…
Wellens Syndrome
Wellens Syndrome = high grade LAD or LM coronary lesion
Ventricular Tachycardia
Ventricular Tachycardia = 3 or more VEB at a rate of > 130 beats/min. If > 30 seconds = sustained; can be monophoric or polymorphic
Ventricular Fibrillation
Ventricular Fibrillation requires a initiating stimulus in a susceptible myocardium.
Vascular Gas Embolism
Vascular gas embolism (VGE) is the entrainment of air (or exogenously delivered gas) from a communication with the environment into the venous or arterial vasculature, producing systemic effects.
Severe Heart Failure Management
Severe Heart Failure Management
Right ventricular infarction
Right ventricular infarction. Suspect in all patients with inferior STEMI
Preload
Preload = initial myocardial fibre length prior to contraction; determined by anything that effects ventricular volume at the end of diastole
Pericarditis
Pericarditis = inflammation in the pericardium
Pulmonary Embolus versus Right Ventricular Infarction
Features that distinguish Pulmonary Embolus from Right Ventricular Infarction
Pericardial disease
Pericardial disease