PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The human heart beats about a hundred thousand times a day. When the beat isn't regular, it's something called an arrhythmia. As we learn in today's Moves in Medicine, not all ...

Patients with presyncope and those with syncope in the ED have similar 30‑day serious cardiac outcomes, although patients ...

Prog Cardiovasc Nurs. 2005;20(1):24-31. According to the site of origin of the impulse, the two classifications of SVT are atrial tachyarrhythmia and AV tachyarrhythmia. Atrial arrhythmias include ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Supraventricular arrhythmias may be underestimated in patients who have received percutaneous patent foramen ...

IN the last decade many investigators have demonstrated that the administration of vasopressor drugs may terminate paroxysmal supraventricular and ventricular tachycardia. 1–11 However, it is only ...

Supraventricular tachycardias (SVTs) are among the most common cardiac arrhythmias encountered across the lifespan, ...

Ventricular tachycardia, or V-tach (VT), and supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) are two types of tachycardia. The term “tachycardia” refers to a heart rate of more than 100 beats per minute. The key ...

A harmless early extra heartbeat and a chaotic, racing, potentially lethal heart rhythm are obviously two different things. Yet, both fit the medical definition of an arrhythmia. "The majority of ...

Dr. Kathleen Maginot answers the question: 'Abnormal Heart Rhythms in Children?' — -- Question: What types of abnormal heart rhythms are more common in children? Answer :There are many ...