Tachycardia is the medical term for an elevated resting heart rate, which can occur when your heart beats more than 100 times per minute. Several factors can cause your heart to beat too fast ...

The harder your heart has to work to pump blood throughout your body while you're not exercising, the higher your resting heart rate will be.

Born at 36 weeks with a heart rate of 240 beats per minute, rising to 301 some 12 days later, doctors performed a miracle ...

You probably were told your resting heart rate at your last checkup. Or maybe you get alerts throughout the day thanks to a ...

Atrial tachycardia is a form of supraventricular tachycardia that occurs when one focus in the atria begins to fire rapidly, overwhelming the sinoatrial node. This results in rapid conduction of ...

Multifocal atrial tachycardia — or MAT — is a rhythm ... P-wave morphologies within one 10-second 12-lead ECG at a heart rate > 100 beats per minute. This indicates multiple irritable foci ...

when he learned as a psychiatry resident that an increased heart rate is a common symptom of panic disorders. It’s now well-established that tachycardia, the term for an increased heart rate, is a ...

Ventricular tachycardia is an abnormally fast heart beat (with three or more consecutive heart beats at least 100 beats per minute) that originates from one of the ventricles in the heart.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 75-year-old woman who, for at least 10 years now, has been experiencing a rapid heart rate. My blood pressure, however, remains normal. In fact, doctors are usually ...

It’s likely that you have “sinus tachycardia,” meaning that the impulse comes from the sinus node but is persistently too fast. The heart rate is supposed to be fast if you are exercising ...

Such techniques can be automatically applied using implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and offer the potential for painless termination of ventricular tachycardia (VT). Reduction in ...

or extreme tachycardia (heart rate >250 bpm) represent clinical limitations and may invalidate ICG measurements.