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# Cardiac arrhythmia/tachycardia

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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).

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