When telemetry or ECG shows a newly prolonged QTc (e.g., >500 ms) in an otherwise stable hospitalized patient, how aggressively do you modify medications, electrolytes, or monitoring?
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Hospital Medicine · Yale School of Medicine/Yale-New Haven Hospital
A newly prolonged QT can be easy to overlook amid the complexity of inpatient hospitalization, and when identified, I generally add it to the problem list so it remains visible during the admission and in future care. Although prolonged QT is associated with torsades de pointes, sudden cardiac death...