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Broad Complex Tachycardia; Roadside to Resus

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The Different Types of Broad Complex Tachycardia

A broad complex tachycardia is defined as a heart rate of more than 100 beats per minute in an adult with a QRS complex, which obviously represents ventricular depolarization. The most common cause of this is by a long way ischemic heart disease, but they can also be caused by a few other different things. These include structural heart disease, including things like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. There are others such as acquired and inherited channelopathies - one of my favourite words in the whole world. And another big causes that you might see out there is prolonged QT intervals,. This can be a trigger for those episodes of ventricular Tachycardia and prolonged

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