EKG/ECG - SVT vs Atrial Fibrillation | The EKG Guy - www.EKG.md 

Omg this is why I'm here!!

@angiefrancois4687 yeah sometimes it's a pain in the ass when you aren't really sure, and have such little time when calling in radio report

I just left the ER yesterday because of the abusive nature of Shasta Regional Hospital night shift. They were literally freaking out but not really helping me. I have congestive heart failure and now I have been going into tachycardia A-fib, my pulse rate would would go all the way up to the 150s per minute in my blood oxygen at 82. And all they did was give me a chemical bath with all these different chemicals which made it worse.

@@faithreturns333 shoot did they give adenosine? Should have cardioverted

Wow, I almost wondered if I was the one you transported. I had an SVT event a year ago, but I did not call with shortness of breath. My neighbor drove me to the nearest fire station because I was feeling faint for quite a while, and it wasn't going away . I realized my heart rate was super high. Emt's transported me, rates were over 200 beats/min. Took a few hours, finally restored to normal. The follow up cardiologist appt never mentioned afib. He said I basically passed a stress test, since I had no other symptoms. Yesterday I took a friend's mom in to see a retina specialist because she has a big black spot in her vision. The Dr did say that blood thinners can contribute to (macula degeneration) or vessels bleeding in the eye. I asked her why she is on blood thinners, and she said because she has Afib. My boyfriend says I had Afib, I said no I had an SVT. Which is why I'm here. But I don't think my SVT was very regular which seems as though i might actually have had Afib? Now I'm going to have to cal cardiologist and make sure. I do experience weird heart beats. But never pain or shortness of breath.

I know this is a year old but, at high rates close to 200 bpm it’s really hard to tell. I’ve been in several situations where we say they’re either in SVT or Afib c RVR. If they have a history of afib or have been in afib then that’s what we go with.

@@dreamup8431 Was going to say the same thing. Id go by history of afib.

does really matter ? ​@@dreamup8431

​@@dreamup8431does it really matters

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How have u been

This is a common phenomenon with GERD. I’m assuming you got evaluated by now since it’s been 2 years

By now you've probably learned that this can be fixed with a medical procedure where they go into your heart thru a vein and do something inside...sorry, can't remember the terminology.

​@@ColdVsIcewhats common ?

It's a normal rhythm variant where the heart speeds up during inspiration and slows during expiration. It's not harmful.

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If there are 50 big boxes on the rhythm strip, multiply by 6. If there are 30, multiply by 10.

On a 6 sec strip you count the qrs and multiply by 10, on a 10 sec strip you count the qrs and multiply by 6 to get ventricular rate. Hope this help.