CEU PSVT Nursing CE

<body> <p align="center">Please upgrade your browser to take advantage of this course. </p> <p align="center"> </p> <h3 align="center"><font size="5">Overview of PSVT</font></h3> <hr> <p><font size="5"><b><tt>P</tt></b></font><font size="4">aroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia (PSVT) is the most common symptomatic tachyarrhythmia in childhood. It occurs in one out of every 250 to 1000 children. The initial onset of this arrhythmia may occur in utero, within the first few weeks of life, or may first occur in adolescence.</font></p> <p><font size="4">Ninety three percent of all infants diagnosed with PSVT will outgrow it by 10 months of age. Interestingly, approximately 35% of the children who "outgrow it" will have a recurrence between the ages of 5 and 8 years of age.</font></p> <p><font size="4">PSVT is a collective name for a group of arrhythmias with:</font></p> <ul> <li><font size="4">similar EKG characteristics</font> </li> <li><font size="4">similar initiating stimuli or arrhythmias</font> </li> <li><font size="4">different mechanisms of conduction</font> </li> </ul> </body>