protocol for management of ventricular tachycardia
Last reviewed 01/2018
Pulseless ventricular tachycardia should be treated as ventricular fibrillation.
Ventricular tachycardia with a pulse is classified as stable or unstable, based on the respective absence or presence of symptoms in the patient.
Unstable ventricular tachycardia may be defined by one or more of the following adverse signs:
- systolic blood pressure less than 90 mm Hg
- pulse rate greater than 150 beats per minute
- chest pain
- evidence of heart failure
protocol for management of haemodynamically stable ventricular tachycardia
protocol for management of haemodynamically unstable ventricular tachycardia