A 52-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with palpitations associated with uneasiness and nausea. She was a nonsmoker. She reported having one previous episode of palpitations, ...

Atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) is a common supraventricular arrhythmia that arises due to a reentrant circuit located in or near the atrioventricular node. This condition ...

This is a narrow QRS complex tachycardia with a very fast heart rate (about 250 beats per minute). It is quite difficult to indentify any P wave activity to determine the exact etiology. Most commonly ...

Explaination: Once again the AV nodal blocking medications should not be used since blocking the AV node allows more impulses to travel through the accessory pathway thus making the ventricular rate ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...