Atrial Flutter • LITFL • ECG Library Diagnosis
2024年10月8日 · Atrial flutter is a form of supraventricular tachycardia caused by a re-entry circuit within the right atrium. The length of the re-entry circuit corresponds to the size of the right atrium, resulting in a fairly predictable atrial rate of around 300 bpm (range 200-400)
Atrial Flutter: Types, Symptoms, Causes, Tests, and Treatments - WebMD
2024年1月12日 · Atrial flutter is an arrhythmia that results from an abnormal electrical circuit inside one of your heart’s two upper chambers, or atria. Most often, this faulty signal develops in...
What is Atrial Flutter? - American Heart Association
2023年3月23日 · Atrial flutter occurs when the chambers beat faster than normal and not always in coordination. It is not as common as atrial fibrillation, also known as AFib or AF. But atrial flutter has similar symptoms, causes and consequences.
Atrial Flutter - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
2022年12月8日 · Atrial flutter, a supraventricular arrhythmia, is one of the most common rhythm disturbances of the heart. A fast atrial rate with a fixed or variable ventricular rate characterizes it. Several atrial contractions to one ventricular contraction, and symptoms include fatigue, palpitations, and syncope.
Atrial flutter - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
2024年8月29日 · Some health conditions or heart surgery can change how electrical signals travel through the heart and cause atrial flutter. The movement of the heart's signals make the heart squeeze and pump blood. Usually, this process goes smoothly. The typical resting heart rate is about 60 to 100 beats a minute.
Atrial Flutter: Symptoms & Treatment - Cleveland Clinic
2024年10月31日 · Atrial flutter is a type of abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmia) that’s too fast. This condition can lead to other problems, like a stroke or heart attack. Medications and procedures can help you get your heart rhythm back to normal. Follow-ups are important because atrial flutter can keep coming back.
Atrial Flutter - Johns Hopkins Medicine
Atrial flutter is a type of abnormal heart rhythm, or arrhythmia. It occurs when a short circuit in the heart causes the upper chambers (atria) to pump very rapidly. Atrial flutter is important not only because of its symptoms but because it can cause a stroke that may result in permanent disability or death. What happens during atrial flutter?
Atrial flutter - Wikipedia
Atrial flutter is characterized by a sudden-onset (usually) regular abnormal heart rhythm on an electrocardiogram (ECG) in which the heart rate is fast. Symptoms may include a feeling of the heart beating too fast, too hard, or skipping beats , chest discomfort, difficulty breathing , a feeling as if one's stomach has dropped, a feeling of ...
Atrial Flutter > Fact Sheets - Yale Medicine
Atrial flutter is a type of heart rhythm abnormality that usually results in the heart beating too quickly. It may cause people to experience heart palpitations, fatigue, shortness of breath, and/or chest pain. Sometimes, however, there are no symptoms, …
EKG: Atrial Flutter - Rush Emergency Medicine
2018年10月8日 · Therefore, in any regular narrow-complex tachycardia with HR 130-170, it is important to consider atrial flutter. Also Atrial flutter patients are often stable, and therefore, there is time to work up the EKG. — If the rate is faster (e.g HR 160-175), it can resemble SVT as P waves become buried in the frequent QRS complexes.