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Acute Medicine | Palpitation 01 knowledge A

Speciality
Nurses
Location
Online
Delivery
Online
Time / Duration
20 to 30 minutes
Subject matter expert
elearning for healthcare
Provider
eIntegrity

Causes of Palpitations - Atrial Flutter
Session Overview
Description
This session describes the underlying conditions predisposing to the development of atrial flutter and outlines how the cardiac re-entrant arrhythmia can lead to the typical 12 lead ECG, the underlying arrhythmia circuit.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session you will be able to:

  • Describe the key ECG features of typical atrial flutter and explain the abnormal re-entry circuit giving rise to the arrhythmia

Atrial flutter is a common cardiac arrhythmia with a distinctive ECG pattern. Of all the cardiac arrhythmias it is perhaps the most straightforward to relate the cardiac conduction disturbance to the surface 12 lead ECG.

Typical atrial flutter has a very specific underlying cardiac abnormality of electrical conduction, i.e. an anticlockwise re-entrant circuit around the tricuspid valve annulus (Fig 1).

The left atrium activates passively.

The re-entrant activation pattern gives rise to the saw tooth baseline seen on the 12 lead ECG.


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Type
Delivery
Title
Acute Medicine | Palpitation 01 knowledge A
Location
Provider Type
Education Provider
Time / Duration
20 to 30 minutes
Location
Online
Posted By
eIntegrity Healthcare e-Learning
Price:
$19.00
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