Handstands: a treatment for supraventricular tachycardia?
case_report · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306949.
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Abstract
Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is the most common symptomatic tachyarrhythmia in childhood. Treatment involves vagal manoeuvres, pharmacological agents or electrical cardioversion. We report a child with recurrent SVT secondary to Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome who is consistently able to revert her SVT by doing a handstand. This case highlights a simple non-invasive technique for the treatment of SVT.
Medical subject headings
- Child
- Electrocardiography
- Female
- Humans
- Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena
- Tachycardia, Supraventricular
- Tachycardia, Supraventricular/etiology
- Tachycardia, Supraventricular/therapy
- Vagus Nerve Stimulation
- Vagus Nerve Stimulation/methods
- Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
- Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome/complications
- Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome/therapy