TY - JOUR
T1 - Old teaching tools should not be forgotten: The value of the Lewis ladder diagram in understanding bigeminal rhythms
AU - Antiperovitch, Pavel
AU - Bayés de Luna, Antoni
AU - Nunes de Alencar, José
AU - García-Niebla, Javier
AU - Escobar-Robledo, Luis Alberto
AU - Restrepo, Danilo Weir
AU - Aristizabal, David
AU - Massó van Roessel, Albert
AU - Bayés-Genís, Antoni
AU - Baranchuk, Adrián
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. As medical education evolves, some traditional teaching methods often get forgotten. For generations, the Lewis ladder diagram (LLD) has helped students understand the mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias and conduction disorders. Similarly, clinicians have used LLDs to communicate their proposed mechanisms to their colleagues and trainees. In this article, we revisit this technique of constructing the LLD and demonstrate this process by describing the mechanisms of various bigeminal rhythms.
AB - © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. As medical education evolves, some traditional teaching methods often get forgotten. For generations, the Lewis ladder diagram (LLD) has helped students understand the mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias and conduction disorders. Similarly, clinicians have used LLDs to communicate their proposed mechanisms to their colleagues and trainees. In this article, we revisit this technique of constructing the LLD and demonstrate this process by describing the mechanisms of various bigeminal rhythms.
KW - bigeminal rhythm
KW - escape-capture bigeminy
KW - Lewis’ diagram
KW - Wenckebach phenomenon
U2 - 10.1111/anec.12685
DO - 10.1111/anec.12685
M3 - Review article
C2 - 31490594
SN - 1082-720X
VL - 24
JO - Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology
JF - Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology
IS - 5
M1 - e12685
ER -