Polymorphic ventricular tachycardia is an abnormal heart rhythm where the bottom chambers of your heart beat too quickly. People with severe cases may experience sudden cardiac arrest. Conditions that ...

A 52-year-old man with hypertension and hyperlipidemia experiences chest pain and summons medical help. Thirty minutes later, in the presence of paramedics, he collapses with ventricular fibrillation ...

Ventricular tachycardia is a type of arrhythmia, or irregular heart rhythm. Sometimes called VT or V-tach, it’s an unusually fast heartbeat that starts in the lower part of your heart called the ...

A prolonged QT interval has a variety of causes and can be a very serious ECG finding, as it may lead to the potentially fatal arrhythmia polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (Torsades de Pointes). See ...

February 9, 2010 (Dallas, Texas and Washington, DC) — Many common, useful drugs have the side effect of electrocardiographic QT-interval prolongation, which substantially increases the risk of sudden ...

If you are a nurse, doctor or other medical professional that deals with cardiac issues or ECG readings, you owe it to yourself and your patients to take an EKG interpretation course. An EKG ...