Bradycardic Cat ECG

RE: Bradycardic Cat ECG

Kate Richardson — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 19:39:26 GMT

Yes I tied to do a panorama (but obviously not that well!) Tall R waves- that's what I was meaning to call them, need some lessons in terminology and yes they were present on the actual trace, much as you can see from my rubbish photo. I wont be able to get another photo will next week now.

Also forget to mention cat was quite bradycardic under GA but did respond to atropine, but not as dramatically as I would have expected (compared to when I have used atropine under GA on occasion in the past)

RE: Bradycardic Cat ECG

Dave Dickson — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:29:29 GMT

Hi Kate

It looks like you've use panoramic function to photo the ECG? So the ECG strip is actually a bit distorted I think. Were the intermittent tall R waves present on the actual trace? Can you send a normal photo of it?

Dave

RE: Bradycardic Cat ECG

Kate Richardson — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:24:39 GMT

new ecg has arrived, so had a play with it yesterday on a bradycardic cat I have seen recently, asymptomatic,(originally it was in for a dental procedure, which we proceeded with and no issues)

Resting hr was 90, it does increase with handling, but only to 120-130 and the ecg hr was 120-135, normal rhythm, and I think the ecg looks quite normal (didn't get many good traces, this one is lead AVF 25mm/s, mainly due to cat being rather wriggly and my incompetence working out how the machine works lol) apart from the intermittent enlarged QRSs. Is this just an artefect or should I be concerned?