What is Ventricular tachycardia?
Ventricular tachycardia is a heart rhythm that originates in the ventricles and produces a heart rate of at least 100 beats per min.
Ventricular Tachycardia
People almost have palpitations
Electrocardiography (ECG) is used to make the diagnosis
Drugs and procedures to destroy abnormal areas of the ventricles are usually needed, but usually an automatic defibrillator is used (ICD)
Ventricular tachycardia may be thought of as a sequence of consecutive ventricular premature beats. Sometimes only a few beats occur together, and then the heart returns to a normal rhythm. Ventricular tachycardia that lasts more that 30 seconds is called sustained ventricular tachycardia. Sustained ventricular tachycardia usually occurs in people with a structural heart disorder that has damaged the ventricles. Most commonly, it occurs weeks or months after a heart attack. It is more common among older people, rarely ventricular tachycardia develops in young people who do most have structural heart disorder, probably due to genetic predisposition.