How to Break an Arrhythmia

Sometimes when you give adenosine and the kid is still in SVT afterwards, if you call me as the cardiologist, I'll say, hey, did you run a strip while you were doing that because I'd like to look at that. There are other times where, for example, atrial flutter is another type of SVT. We see it pretty rarely, but we do see it, especially in neonates. A flutter can be a good mimicker of AVRT. But the difference with A flutter is that atrial fluttered is a re-entrant loopWhere the loop exists entirely within the atrium. In atrial fibrillation,