This is a challenging ECG in regards to determining if the wide QRS complex rhythm is from ventricular tachycardia or "SVT with aberrancy" such as AV nodal reentry tachycardia causing a rate-dependent ...

This ECG is challenging. The rhythm starts as normal sinus rhythm with a right bundle branch block, then a wide-complex tachycardia develops in a left bundle branch block pattern. The important thing ...

I'm lying on my back with my legs in the air and thumb in my mouth, blowing out hard. But it's not working. My heart is still going a million miles an hour. I'd experienced episodes of rapid heartbeat ...

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 ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

MADISON, WI — The American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and the Heart Rhythm Society (ACC/AHA/HRS) have published new guidelines for the management of patients with ...

1: Sir Alex Ferguson's condition, supraventricular tachycardia, is a non-life threatening heart rhythm disturbance caused by rapid electrical activity in the upper heart (the atria) 2: The same ...

Many arrhythmias have no clear cause; these idiopathic cases arise without identifiable triggers, while for others, the causes may be congenital or acquired.