Cardiac arrhythmia/tachycardia

Tachycardia is a general term that is applied in a lot of different contexts. Most generally it means pathologically increased heart rate.

• Paroxysmal Tachycardia
  • Supraventricular Paroxysmal Tachycardia (SVT)
  • Ventricular Paroxysmal Tachycardia (VT)
    • sustained
    • unsustained

Tachycardia, as applied in adult medicine, is defined as a heart rate of over 100 beats per minute (BPM).