Perioperative medicine & anaesthesia · UKMLA & AKT
Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT)
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- SVT = paroxysmal re-entrant tachycardia involving the AV node; produces regular narrow-complex tachycardia (QRS <120 ms), rate 150-250 bpm
- Most common subtypes: AVNRT (~60%) and AVRT (associated with WPW/accessory pathway)
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