The Benefits of Vagal Manoeuvres for SVT

Vagal maneuvers are different exercises that you can do to the patient. They try to stimulate the vagus nerve, which slows everything in your body down. In re-entrant forms of SVT, if we can get that AV node to slow down a little bit, what's going to happen is as that really rapid loop of electricity tries to get down the AV node,. If we can just put the brakes on the AV node by slowing conduction through it, that circuit's going to break and you're going to go back in the sinus rhythm.