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. 2020 Nov;9(3):155–160. doi: 10.15420/aer.2020.20

Table 2: ECG Criteria in the 2019 European Society of Cardiology Guidelines Suggest Ventricular Rather Than Supraventricular Tachycardia in Wide Complex Tachycardia.

Atrioventricular dissociation Ventricular rate > atrial rate
Fusion/capture beats Different QRS morphology from that of tachycardia
Chest lead negative concordance All precordial chest leads negative
RS in precordial leads
  • Absence of RS in precordial leads

  • RS >100 ms in any lead*

QRS complex in aVR
  • Initial R wave

  • Initial R or Q wave >40 ms

  • Presence of a notch of predominantly negative complex

QRS axis −90° to ± 180° Both in the presence of right and left bundle branch block morphology
R wave peak time in lead II R wave peak time ≥50 ms
Right bundle branch block morphology Lead V1: Monophasic R, rsR’, biphasic qR complex, broad R (>40 ms), and a double-peaked R wave with the left peak taller than the right (the so-called rabbit ear sign)
Lead V6: R:S ratio <1 (rS, QS patterns)
Left bundle branch block morphology Lead V1: Broad R wave, slurred or notched down stroke of the S wave and delayed nadir of S wave
Lead V6: Q or QS wave

*RS = beginning of R to deepest part of S. Source: Brugada et al. 2019.[1] Reproduced with permission from Oxford University Press.