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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
“Tachycardia typically refers to a heart rate that exceeds the normal range for a resting heart rate (heart rate in an inactive or sleeping individual).”
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)
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)
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)
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)
What happens if I take some gurners and I have tachycardia? Am I at greater risk of heart attack or should I be OK?
Discussion of the specific treatment of medical disorders beyond generalities is patently beyond the scope of an encyclopedia, and is inappropriate unless the information is provided and verified through a credentialed medical practitioner for obvious reasons. 2605:A601:4515:F400:35A4:F235:A55C:8044 ( talk) 23:53, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
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.
I have postoperatory tachycardia after a bypass surgery. I found nothing about that problem in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.10.132.191 ( talk) 22:36, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
"This can happen in response to a decrease in bananas" - eh? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.234.30.50 ( talk) 21:54, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
I am deleting this section and the related Miley Cyrus reference. Not sure if vandalism or hearsay but definitely a HIPAA violation unless common public knowledge and also not relevant to article. -- Coppermallow ( talk) 22:21, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Just making some minor changes to text to explain medical terms, clarifying things for nonmedical personnel.-- Coppermallow ( talk) 18:10, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Are we really sure of this? It seems a bit fast. Really fast. Gingermint ( talk) 02:47, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
1-2 days: >159 beats per minute (bpm) 3-6 days: >166 bpm 1-3 weeks: >182 bpm 1-2 months: >179 bpm 3-5 months: >186 bpm 6-11 months: >169 bpm 1-2 years: >151 bpm 3-4 years: >137 bpm 5-7 years: >133 bpm 8-11 years: >130 bpm 12-15 years: >119 bpm >15 years - adult: >100 bpm
Also, It isn't clear to me if this is from birth or conception. I think one would assume birth, but some clarification would be nice. Jonathan Caldwell, Columbus, OH ( talk) 09:17, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
I am rewording some of the text and removing some unnecessary components. As it was, it seemed as if this text was lifted directly from a textbook and was too technical. Some of the details are not necessary to explain the term though the medical relevance of tachycardia will be left intact.-- Coppermallow ( talk) 18:54, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
It would be useful to include in the intro the pronunciation of Tachycardia. I'm not too familiar with IPA, but could someone who is edit that in? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.94.141.156 ( talk) 00:42, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
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I would find it useful if a picture showing a normal ekg and a ekg with the specific irregularty diplicted. The irregularity could be highlighted to make it easier to identify. 38.110.36.2 ( talk) 17:54, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
It seems the article focus on tachyarrhythmia, however tachycardia is a general term that used for increased heart rate. I suggest that the section of DDx moved to tachyarrhythmia and we should write the article more general. Baqeri ( talk) 21:31, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
Not quite- "Exercise" is an example of "appropriate" sinus Tachycardia as opposed to inappropriate sinus tachycardia. Medically, in practice anyways, Sinus Tachycardia which is not pathological is simply referred to as "appropriate sinus tachycardia". Any tachycardia which is not a "sinus" rhythm is by inherent definition "pathological", if you carefully study your basic cardiology. 2605:A601:4515:F400:35A4:F235:A55C:8044 ( talk) 00:03, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
"100* bpm"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:9:480:DF76:E90D:960:828:3105 ( talk) 22:53, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
Actually, its there because while most sources say "100 beats a minute" as constituting tachycardia, there are a few sources out there that say 110. Also, in pediatrics rates above 100 can be normal. (as in neonates, for example.) If you don't know why something is there you should ask first before removing it. 2605:A601:4515:F400:35A4:F235:A55C:8044 ( talk) 23:56, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
Suggestion: a semi-logarithmic diagram (dots, not line) showing the BPM numbers in Diagnosis section, with Age as the logarithmic axis. That would illustrate how a resting rate may be dangerous when higher (red area) than those points. It would just be an illustration of the data already available, nothing more - nothing less, so there's no original research in it. TGCP ( talk) 09:05, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
Please note that in the discussion of the various types of tachycardia, I have inserted the sources needed tag for material which is completely un-sourced. Please remember the policy about the requirement for valid sources and the prohibition on original research. Thank you. 2605:A601:4515:F400:35A4:F235:A55C:8044 ( talk) 23:58, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
Article previously stated that patients in sepsis are considered in a state of tachycardia if their heart rate surpassed 90BPM.
The Sepsis-3 definition, as defined in 2016-2017, removed heart rate from their diagnostic criteria.
The current diagnostic criteria does include breaths per minute, but breaths per minute are not necessarily a correlate of tachycardia.
Therefore, I removed the statement that patients in sepsis can have a tachycardia diagnosis if their heart rate is above 90BPM.
Sources:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2492881
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5538252/
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2018.00425/full#B1 EverywhereBlair ( talk) 02:01, 12 July 2022 (UTC)