Torsades de Pointes (Deep Dive R21)

EM Clerkship

Zack Olson, MD and Michael Estephan, MD

Education, Courses, Health & Fitness, Medicine

5 • 795 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Torsades de Pointes (TdP) A type of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia that is inherently unstable and often quickly degrades into ventricular fibrillation. It usually occurs in the setting of a prolonged QT interval, which can either be genetic or acquired. Treatment Defibrillation – per ACLS, ventricular tachycardia with a pulse should receive synchronized cardioversion. But in […]

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0:00.0	Hello, med students. My name is Zach Olson, and thank you for downloading this episode of the EM
0:06.6	Clerkship podcast. This episode is sponsored by Pearson Ravits Insurance. Stephanie Pearson at Pearson
0:14.4	Ravits is my personal disability and life insurance agent. She is an OBGYN who became injured while at work and now runs an insurance company that
0:23.6	advocates for and educates medical professionals on insurance-related issues, things like
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1:09.7	Thank you to Pearson Rabbits for sponsoring this episode.
1:12.9	Now on to our deep dive.
1:14.8	So this last case was a true classic.
1:19.1	Torsad de point.
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