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Chapter 22 - Too Fast for Comfort

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2021

Shelley Riphagen
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London and South Thames Retrieval Service
Sam Fosker
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London
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Summary

A 2-month-old baby girl was brought into the A&E of her local hospital by her parents. Their main concern was a change in her breathing and a day’s history of feeding less well. She had been born at term and been well until 2 days prior to admission, when she had developed mild coryzal symptoms with a cough. She had not really fed properly on the day of admission and her parents were very concerned. During triage her heart rate was noted to be 270bpm. She was moved to the resuscitation area in A&E for further management. A single-lead ECG showed a narrow-complex tachycardia. The observations in Resus are noted in Table 22.1 with the first blood gas in Table 22.2.

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Print publication year: 2022

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Colucci, RA, Silver, MJ, Shubrook, J. Common types of supraventricular tachycardia: diagnosis and management. American Family Physician 2010;82(8):942–52.Google ScholarPubMed
Esberger, D, Jones, S, Morris, F. ABC of clinical electrocardiography. junctional tachycardias. BMJ 2002 324:662–5.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hannash, CR, Crosson, JE () Emergency diagnosis and management of pediatric arrhythmia. J Emerg Trauma Shock 2010;3(3):251–60.Google Scholar

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