Talk:Tachycardia

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This is the talk page for the Tachycardia article, and discussions here should be somehow related to improving that article. Please review the talk page guidelines. See also What Wikipedia is not. MoodyGroove 13:51, 30 December 2006 (UTC)MoodyGroove

Contents 1 VTach 2 Ventricular tachycardia 3 Gold standard? 4 Anxiety 5 Ecstacy 6 Coffee

[edit] VTach

This should go on a new-to-written VT page:

Often, ventricular fibrillation is preceded by ventricular tachycardia. While these are both fast rhythms in the lower chambers of the heart (the left and right ventricles), ventricular tachycardia is a more organized rhythm which usually still gives marginal cardiac output, while ventricular fibrillation is described as chaotic activity of the ventricles. While ventricular tachycardia can lead to ventricular fibrillation, it is often self-limiting. Ventricular fibrillation never converts to sinus rhythm, and will always lead to death if it is not terminated quickly. Ventricular tachycardia may be associated with an adequate blood pressure to perfuse the brain. Often, however, the heart is beating too fast for blood to enter the heart, causing a low blood pressure and decreased perfusion of the brain and other vital organs. In ventricular fibrillation, since the electrical activity in the ventricle is chaotic, there's no organized pumping of blood, and therefore there is no blood perfusion of the brain. JFW | T@lk 08:02, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ventricular tachycardia

I'm going to move Ventricular tachycardia into it's own page. Basically, Tachycardia should just give you an overview of the different types of tachycardia and point the reader to other pages such as Ventricular tachycardia, Sinus tachycardia, and Supraventricular tachycardia. Ksheka 21:03, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Done.Ksheka 21:24, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gold standard?

Not to nit-pick, but the following line is not quite right: The gold standard of cardiac rhythm analysis is the electrocardiogram. While I'm not an electrophysiologist, my guess is that the gold standard of cardiac rhythm analysis is the intracardiac electrogram performed as part of an electrophysiologic study (EP study). This is not commonly performed. The most commonly used diagnostic tools to determine the nature of a cardiac rhythm are the 12 lead EKG and the telemetry rhythm strip. Ksheka 21:29, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anxiety

It's odd that this article does not mention anxiety, which is a common cause of tachycardia. Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a vastly more common cause than rare adrenal tumors which are mentioned in the article. DonPMitchell 05:49, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ecstacy

What happens if I take some gurners and I have tachycardia? Am I at greater risk of heart attack or should I be OK?

If you have concerns about the health effects of recreational drug use, I suggest you take it up with your personal physician or perform some Google searches. It's really not appropriate to ask for medical advice of any kind on a Wikipedia talk page. MoodyGroove 04:35, 18 March 2007 (UTC)MoodyGroove

[edit] Coffee

I don't want to edit this article but I think someone should mention coffee as a cause to high heart beat and what to do if their pulse was 121.