Bifalgorithm post
Here are nine rhythm strips you have to know for the NLEX and trust me you gotta know these by sight. The first strip is normal sinus rhythm. Now we cover this in another video, but as you can see it's normal. Everything is evenly spaced apart and every P wave is matched to QRS. Next is brataarddia anything less than 60 beats per minute, so we have 1, 2, 3, 4, five. This rhythm is 50 beats per minute. Next is ventricular fibrillation as you can see it's flopping around like a shoeace here for viib ventriar taiccardia we call these V ta tombstones because they have big arcs. Now vfb and B. Tac are both shockable rhythms just not V tack with a pulse. So think if you don't have a pulse then you DFB and if you can count a pulse then you cardiovvert. Now AFB has no P waves and the qrss are all mismatched. Atri flutter has that sawtooth distinction and SVT is very fast a super fasts rhythm. Now torsaddes de pointe looks like a tornado and acystole is simply a flat line non-shockable.
Here are nine rhythm strips you have to know for the NLEX and trust me you gotta know these by sight. The first strip is normal sinus rhythm. Now we cover this…
Ideas in this flowchart
- Rhythm Strips for NLEX
- Normal Sinus Rhythm
- Bradycardia
- Ventricular Fibrillation
- Ventricular Tachycardia
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Atrial Flutter
- Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
- Torsades de Pointes
- Asystole
- Characteristics
- Treatment
- Evenly spaced, P wave matched to QRS
- Less than 60 beats per minute
- Flopping appearance
- Tombstone arcs
- No P waves, mismatched QRS
- Sawtooth pattern
- Very fast rhythm
- Tornado-like appearance
- Flat line
- Shockable
- Non-shockable
- Cardioversion if pulse present
- Defibrillation if no pulse