As reviewed earlier, termination of reentrant tachycardia requires critical timing of the pacing stimulus. Success or failure of the pacing stimulus to interact with and terminate tachycardia, is ...

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If you have ventricular tachycardia, your doctor may give you medicine to slow your heart rate down. You might also need a catheter ablation. In this procedure, a doctor threads a thin tube through an ...

We report the case of a 56-year-old man who had sudden palpitations, lightheadedness, chest pain, and dyspnea. Paramedics arrived within about 10 minutes after the onset of symptoms and found that the ...

Q: I was feeling lightheaded and having palpitations, went to the ER and was admitted to the ICU. They said I had a run of ventricular tachycardia. What is this? A: The heartbeat is controlled by ...

Non-sustained ventricular tachycardia is an abnormally fast heart rate that occurs in the lower chambers of the heart and lasts for less than 30 seconds. Tachycardia is a heart rate that is faster ...

You go back to sleep and are soon called again for another abnormal rhythm seen on the same patient which is intermittently occurring. The patient is still asymptomatic and vital signs are still ...