Atrial Flutter and Atrial Fibrillation Chapter 15
Atrial Flutter and Atrial FibrillationAtrial Flutter and Atrial Fibrillation
Chapter 15Chapter 15
Introduction
• Atrial flutter and fibrillation
• tachycardias
• ectopic
Introduction
• PVST
• atrial rate = 140-250 cycles /min
• Atrial flutter
• atrial rate = 250-350 cycles/min
• F waves
• “sawtooth” shape
• Atrial fibrillation
• atrial rate = 350-600 cycles/min
• f waves
Atrial Flutter/Fibrillation
Atrial Flutter
• Reentrant type arrhythmia
Atrial Flutter
• Typical atrial rate is about 300 / min
Atrial Flutter
• Ventricle rate is closer to 150, 100 or 75 beats/min
• 2:1, 3:1 and 4:1
Atrial Flutter
• Causes
• Symptoms
• palpitations, light-headedness, syncope
• Formation of thrombi
Atrial Flutter
• Treatment
• spontaneous
• oxygen treatment (hypoxemic patients)
• drugs (beta blocker, Ca channel blocker, digitalis, antiarrhythmia drug)
• synchronized electrical cardioversion
• pacing wire
• RF catheter ablation
Atrial Fibrillation
• Atrial rate = 350-600• f waves
• course• fine
• Irregular ventricular rate• Multiple reentrant wavelets or multiple foci of
atrial activation
Atrial Fibrillation
Atrial Fibrillation
Atrial Fibrillation
Atrial Fibrillation
Atrial Fibrillation