{"id":22055,"date":"2017-04-07T07:17:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T01:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiophile.org\/?p=22055"},"modified":"2022-12-04T05:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T23:43:00","slug":"tremor-artefact-resembling-ventricular-tachycardia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/tremor-artefact-resembling-ventricular-tachycardia\/","title":{"rendered":"Tremor artefact resembling ventricular tachycardia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C9seH2acjLE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Tremor artefact resembling ventricular tachycardia<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32295\" src=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Tremor-artefact-resembling-VT-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"768\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Tremor induced artefact resembling VT<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>ECG shows artefacts due to tremor resembling a ventricular tachycardia. The upper panel shows the artefacts resembling a wide QRS tachycardia and the lower panel shows the ECG with same leads when the tremor was not severe. The spikes of the QRS complexes, marked by blue arrows can be seen at regular intervals even when the tremor artefacts are strong. Similar artefacts can sometimes be seen on the cardiac monitor during chest physiotherapy due the movement artefacts picked up by the chest electrodes.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally unilateral tremor may produce artefacts only in leads involving that particular limb, while it may be absent in other ECG leads. Artefacts resembling wide QRS tachycardia can lead on to &#8216;inappropriate shocks&#8217; in an ICU setting! This can be avoided by physically checking the pulse every time an &#8216;arrhythmia&#8217; is detected and therapy planned.<\/p>\n<p>Tremor induced artefact resembling ventricular tachycardia on ECG has been reported by Srikureja W et al in&nbsp;<em>Circulation&nbsp;<\/em>in 2000 [1]. Their patient had tremor of left upper limb only. ECG repeated while holding the left upper limb abolished the artefacts!<\/p>\n<p>Have a look at another ECG in which <a href=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/artefacts-resembling-vt-and-vf\/\">artefacts resemble ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Reference<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Srikureja W, Darbar D, Reeder GS. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/full\/10.1161\/01.cir.102.11.1337\">Tremor-induced ECG artifact mimicking ventricular tachycardia<\/a>. Circulation. 2000 Sep 12;102(11):1337-8.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tremor artefact resembling ventricular tachycardia Tremor induced artefact resembling VT ECG shows artefacts due to tremor resembling a ventricular tachycardia. The upper panel shows the artefacts resembling a wide QRS tachycardia and the lower panel shows the ECG with same leads when the tremor was not severe. The spikes of the QRS complexes, marked by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tremor artefact resembling ventricular tachycardia - All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tremor artefact resembling ventricular tachycardia: Careful scrutiny will reveal the spikes of QRS occurring regularly within the artefacts.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/tremor-artefact-resembling-ventricular-tachycardia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tremor artefact resembling ventricular tachycardia - 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