Right Coronary VF

The sa and av node is supplied by the right and much more likely to cause arrhythmias, from what I've witnessed. The conus branch can be cannulated and cause us nurses to have some arrhythmias, too. ������ We did just have a complete heart block with injection of the left though. Fun times..

The sa and av node is supplied by the right and much more likely to cause arrhythmias, from what I've witnessed. The conus branch can be cannulated and cause us nurses to have some arrhythmias, too. ������ We did just have a complete heart block with injection of the left though. Fun times..

The sa and av nodes are more likely to cause the ventricular arrhythmias that we're talking about?

The sa and av nodes are more likely to cause the ventricular arrhythmias that we're talking about?

RCA injection is much more likely to cause ventricular arrhythmias (still rare). I just think irritation (contrast) of the electrical system (fed mostly by the right) is the cause, disruption in the electrical pathway causing the disorganized activity. Just makes sense to me, I haven't researched it in depth. It's very common to have some ectopy with the irritation of passage catheters through the ventricles, but these stop with moving the catheter away from the sensitive spot. I'm not an expert by any means and don't have scholarly evidence to give you :).

I'm not an CCL expert either, but frogging around with the right side, most often causes some type of bradycardia and or asystole. Not saying ventricular tachyarrythmias can't happen, it's just the former that happens more. If I had to guess, I might say that RV stunning from the contrast causes a fall in return to the LV with concomitant fall in LM perfusion. In an already diseased cardiovascular system (they're not getting cath'd for nothing) the LV doesn't tolerate that and misbehaves.

Just my speculation.

I'm not an CCL expert either, but frogging around with the right side, most often causes some type of bradycardia and or asystole. Not saying ventricular tachyarrythmias can't happen, it's just the former that happens more. If I had to guess, I might say that RV stunning from the contrast causes a fall in return to the LV with concomitant fall in LM perfusion. In an already diseased cardiovascular system (they're not getting cath'd for nothing) the LV doesn't tolerate that and misbehaves.

Just my speculation.

Yeah, bradycardia/and the like is much more common than ventricular arrhythmias with injection of the right. Great thoughts, you may be right.. I just know I hold my breath a little with initial injections of the right.