Supraventricular tachycardia is a term used to describe any heart rhythm that is greater than 100 beats per minute originating from above the AV node (the atrium). The term “SVT” can be ...

This paper reviews the incidence, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of SVT, along with gender differences, and discusses important implications for the health care provider.

Any tachycardic rhythm with a left or right bundle branch block that is NOT ventricular tachycardia is considered "supraventricular tachycardia with aberrancy". This would even include sinus ...

Commonly it will be an actual abnormal heart rhythm - anything from extra beats like PVCs (premature ventricular contraction) to arrhythmias like atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter or SVT ...

SVT Sodium channel blockers such as flecainide; potassium channel blockers such as Pacerone (amiodarone) and Betapace (sotalol) Antiarrhythmic drugs treat abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias ...

For life threatening cardiac arrhythmia, the administration of drugs should be by the intravenous ... plasma levels can be maintained by an intravenous infusion of 2–4 mg/min. Lignocaine has no effect ...

Treatment of supraventricular arrhythmias varies according to rhythm, rate ... In elderly patients and those with heart failure, proarrhythmia risks from antiarrhythmic drug therapy may be ...