VT versus SVT with aberrancy
EKG Criteria

Features favoring VT   

Features favoring SVT w/aberrancy

AV dissociation

Consistent onset of tachycardia with PACs

Fusion/Dressler (capture) beats

Short RP interval (<0.1 sec)

2:1 ventriculoatrial block

1:1 ventriculoatrial relationship

Slightly irregular R-R intervals

Regular R-R intervals

Absence of RS complex in the precordial leads

Triphasic pattern in V1

QRS concordance in the precordial leads similar to normally conducted beats   

Initial vector of abnormal QRS complex

Predominantly negative QRS complexes in V4 - V6

QR complexes present in V2 - V6

R-S width > 100ms in at least one precordial lead

QRS duration > 140ms

Extreme left superior axis deviation

Net area under QRS negative in leads I and II

 

 

MORPHOLOGY CRITERIA

Features favoring VT   

Features favoring SVT w/aberrancy

RBBB pattern:   

RBBB pattern:

  • Monophasic R or biphasic qR, QR, or RS in V1
  • Triphasic rSR' in V1
  •    S > R or QS in V6  
  • Triphasic rSR' in V6
  
  • R > S in V6

LBBB pattern:   

LBBB pattern:

  • Broad R wave or wide R-S length (> 30msec) in V1 or V2
  • No R in V1
  • Notched downstroke of S-wave in V1 or V2
  • Small narrow R in V2
  • > 60msec to nadir of S in V1 or V2   
  • No slurring of S-wave downstroke
  • qR or QS pattern in V6  
  • Monophasic R in V6

 

  • Presence of septal Q in I & V6

 

BRUGADA Criteria for VT

 

 

References

Wellens, et al. The value of the electrocardiogram in the differential diagnosis of a tachycardia with a  widened QRS complex.
      Am J Med 1977; 64: 27-33.
Brugada, et al. A new approach to the differential diagnosis of a regular tachycardia with a wide QRS complex. Circulation 1991; 83: 1649-59.

 

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