He presented to urgent care and was found to be in wide complex tachycardia at the rate of about 200 bpm (Figure 1). The patient was given diltiazem intravenously and converted to atrial flutter ...

The most common causes of tachycardia include: The most common cause of SVT is an electrical circuit problem in the heart. This happens when the normal electrical signals travel from the upper ...

Atrial tachycardia is a form of supraventricular tachycardia that occurs when one focus in the atria begins to fire rapidly, overwhelming the sinoatrial node. This results in rapid conduction of ...

Christina Applegate's daughter Sadie recently revealed she was diagnosed with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome ... but that doesn't usually happen. That's only on really bad days when ...

Sinus tachycardia is recognized on an ECG with a normal upright P wave in lead II preceding every QRS complex. This indicates that the pacemaker is coming from the sinus node and not elsewhere in ...

Such techniques can be automatically applied using implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and offer the potential for painless termination of ventricular tachycardia (VT). Reduction in ...