The most common test used to diagnose ventricular tachycardia is an electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG) . An EKG records your heart’s electrical activity. Electrodes (small sticky patches) are placed on your chest and arms to record the heart’s rhythm, and the pattern prints on graph paper.
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Ventricular tachycardiaSymptomsLightheadedness, palpitations, chest painComplicationsCardiac arrest, ventricular fibrillationTypesNon-sustained, sustainedCausesCoronary heart disease, aortic stenosis, cardiomyopathy, electrolyte problems, heart attackVentricular tachycardia – Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ventricular_tachycardia
Read moreIs ventricular fibrillation worse than ventricular tachycardia?
Ventricular fibrillation is more serious than atrial fibrillation . Ventricular fibrillation frequently results in loss of consciousness and death, because ventricular arrhythmias are more likely to interrupt the pumping of blood, or undermine the heart’s ability to supply the body with oxygen-rich blood.
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Tachycardia is a very fast heart rate of more than 100 beats per minute. The many forms of tachycardia depend on where the fast heart rate begins. If it begins in the ventricles, it is called ventricular tachycardia . If it begins above the ventricles, it is called supraventricular tachycardia.
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It shows an irregular wide-complex tachycardia with different degrees of QRS widening, consistent with preexcited atrial fibrillation with very fast conduction to the ventricles. At the end of the strip, QRS complexes become smaller and erratic as atrial fibrillation turns into ventricular fibrillation.24 Kas 2015
Read moreWhich is more serious atrial fibrillation or ventricular fibrillation?
Ventricular fibrillation is more serious than atrial fibrillation . Ventricular fibrillation frequently results in loss of consciousness and death, because ventricular arrhythmias are more likely to interrupt the pumping of blood, or undermine the heart’s ability to supply the body with oxygen-rich blood.
Read moreIs AFib and ventricular fibrillation the same?
Ventricular fibrillation (V-fib) is a dangerous type of arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat . It affects your heart’s ventricles.
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