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Ventricular Tachycardia Management

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Ventricular tachycardia is a potentially life threatening cardiac arrhythmia. On the ECG, ventricular tachycardia can be defined as three or more ventricular ectopic beats occurring in a sequence at a rate more than 100 per minute. Another rare form of ventricular tachycardia is bidirectional ventricular tachycardia.

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Head Up Tilt Test (HUTT)

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Sometimes, head up tilt test, also known in short as HUTT, is also done for the evaluation of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, POTS, a condition in which there is tachycardia on standing up, without a fall in blood pressure. Second is cardioinhibitory response, in which there is bradycardia, but no hypotension.

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Why is an Implantable Defibrillator NOT Useful Soon After Myocardial Infarction?

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And, after the shock, if there is bradycardia, it can be covered by these two pacing electrodes, one at the tip, and one proximal to it. Second reason is that they have more of ventricular fibrillation than ventricular tachycardia. These are high voltage, defibrillator shock coils.