Love Your Ventricles

Never On Time

100

I am 1 Early Ectopic Beat Originating From the Ventricles

Premature Ventricular Contraction

WHAT DISTINGUISHES ME FROM AN ABERRANT PAC?

200

2 Consecutive Early Ectopic Beats originating from the Ventricles

Ventricular Couplet

300

3 Early Ectopic Beats originating in the ventricles (> 100bpm)

Ventricular Run

400

1 Late Beat originating from the ventricles

Ventricular Escape Beat

500

1 Early Ectopic beat and 1 Late beat originating from the ventricles

Premature Ventricular Contraction and Ventricular Escape Beat

Rate Me

100

I have a rate of </ 40bpm and a wide bizarre shaped QRS

Idioventricular Rhythm

200

I have a rate of > 100 bpm, > 3 beats and a wide bizarre shaped QRS

Ventricular Tachycardia

300

I have a rate of 41-100 bpm and a wide bizarre shaped QRS

Accelerated Idioventricular Rhythm

WHAT IS THE MAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JUNCTIONAL AND VENTRICULAR RHYTHMS?

400

You mention me when I have 6 seconds or more of no Ventricular Activity (Depolarization)

Asystole / Ventricular Standstill if you see P Waves

500

I have a combination of 7 Early and Late Beats with an Average Rate of 70 bpm and a wide bizarre QRS

Accelerated Idioventricular Rhythm

How do I look?

100

I am a Early Wide beat that does not disrupt the underlying rhythms regularity

Interpolated PVC

200

I am coming from multiple locations and have different deflections 

Multifocal

300

I am used when multiple locations are firing, but I have >3 beats

Polymorphic

400

I am the pause that follows a PVC

Compensatory Pause

500

When I fire from a site in the ventricles, why do I look the way I do?

You are not getting the rapid depolarization associated with the normal conduction pathway. The impulse is now having to slowly depolarize the ventricles cell by cell, traveling a different way through the ventricles. 

Why does this happen?

100

I happen when the SA and AV node both fail to fire an Impulse

Ventricular Escape Beat

200

I happen when an Ectopic Site anywhere in the Ventricles decides to fire early

Premature Ventricular Contraction

300

When the Automaticity level in the BOH/Ventricles rises higher than the SA and AV node, I create this rhythm

Accelerated Idioventricular Rhythm

400

When the SA and AV node both fail to fire an impulse and my random burst do not bring back the normal rhythm, I fire 3 or more times and become.. 

Idioventricular Rhythm

500

When my friends and I all decide to fire rapidly in the ventricles, causing many different shapes of QRS, we are called....

Polymorphic VTach or Torsades de Pointes

This is Not Good

100

I am taking over the Ventricles for many different sites, I look like a twisting ribbon. 

Torsades de Pointes

200

I no longer have any Electrical Activity in the Atrium or the Ventricles

Asystole

300

My Atrium is still firing, but I have no Ventricular Activity Left.

Ventricular Standstill

400

I have some Chaotic Activity in the Ventricles but nothing is making sense.

Ventricular Fibrillation

500

I am the last ditch effort of the Ventricles trying to save myself

Agonal Rhythm