{"id":9358,"date":"2012-06-19T14:04:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T14:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cardiophile.org\/common\/?p=8303"},"modified":"2012-06-19T14:04:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T14:04:13","slug":"what-are-ventricular-couplets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/what-are-ventricular-couplets\/","title":{"rendered":"What are ventricular couplets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">What are ventricular couplets?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gA2zgrFnMyg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35122\" src=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/VPC-Couplet-1.jpg\" alt=\"VPC Couplet\" width=\"1490\" height=\"678\">The two wide QRS complexes (<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">blue arrows<\/span>) constitute a ventricular couplet<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1 mV: Standardization marker indicates 10 mm deflection for 1 mV. 25 mm\/s above that is the tracing speed.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of premature beats originating from the ventricles, occurring in a sequence with no intervening normal beats is called a ventricular couplet. Couplets indicate a higher degree of irritability of the ventricles than isolated ventricular premature beats and could be the forerunner of more severe arrhythmias like ventricular tachycardia in which several premature ventricular beats occur at a fast rate. Ventricular couplets stand out on the ECG as wide QRS complexes occurring in consecutive pairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of premature beats originating from the ventricles, occurring in a sequence with no intervening normal beats is called a ventricular couplet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heart-disease-faq"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What are ventricular couplets? - All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A couple of premature beats originating from the ventricles, occurring in a sequence with no intervening normal beats is called a ventricular couplet\" \/>\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\/what-are-ventricular-couplets\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What are ventricular couplets? 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