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Narrow Complex Tachycardia; Roadside to Resus

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Atrial Fibilation

Atri fibilation is the most common sustained dis rith me that's going to be seen by us emergency care clinitions. The initial site where the electrical impulse arises comes from multiple different sights in the atria, but crucially, not from the sino atrial node. Each one of those sihts can fire completely independently, and that results in rates of de polarization of the atre that can approach up to 600 times a minute. But what we're really looking for here isn't how quick the atria are going, it's how quick that conductante from the atria to the ventricles are occurring.

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