Tachycardia | Healthcare Spanish

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Vocabulary

• Tachycardia or tachyarrhythmia
• Supraventricular tachyarrhythmia
• Sinus arrhythmia
• Atrial arrhythmia
• Junctional arrhythmia or nodal arrhythmia
• Beats per minute
• Pulse
• Ventricular arrhythmia
• Heart beat between 100 and 150 is called simple tachyarrhythmia
• Heart beat between 150 and 200 is called paroxysmal tachyarrhythmia
• Heart beat between 250 and 350 is called flutter (atrial or ventricular)
• Heart beat over 350 is called fibrillation

• Taquicardia o taquiarritmia
• Taquiarritmia supraventricular
• Arritmia sinusal
• Arritmia auricular
• Junctional arritmia o arritmia nodal
• Latidos por minuto (LPM)
• Pulso
• Arritmia ventricular
• Latido del corazón entre 100 y 150 LPM se llama sencilla taquiarritmia
• Latido del corazón entre 150 y 200 LPM se llama taquiarritmia paroxística
• Latido del corazón entre 250 y 350 LPM se llama aleteo (auricular o ventricular)
• Latido del corazón más de 350 LPM se llama fibrilación

Nodal reentry tachycardia—taquicardia por reentrada nodal

English description

In typical AV nodal reentrant tachycardia (slow antegrade conduction via the slow pathway and retrograde conduction via the fast pathway), the P wave is not visible and may appear right after the QRS complex, resembling a pseudo R wave in lead V1.

Descripción en Español

En la taquicardia por reentrada nodal típica (conducción anterógrada por la vía AV lenta y conducción retrógrada por la vía rápida), la onda P puede no verse y puede ser visible justo después del complejo QRS, pareciendo una pseudo R en la derivación V1.