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Handstands: a treatment for supraventricular tachycardia?
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- Published on: 22 March 2016
- Published on: 22 March 2016Cardioinversion for supraventricular tachycardiaShow More
There is not much new under the sun, and this includes headstands as a treatment for supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). In 1995 I reported this technique as an effective method of converting SVT to sinus rhythm [1]; details of this safe and simple technique were published widely in the medical press at the time [2]. The manoeuvre had been discovered by the father of a patient in desperation when his son suffered a prolo...
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