tachycardia: see arrhythmia arrhythmia , disturbance in the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat. Various arrhythmias can be symptoms of serious heart disorders; however, they are usually of no medical significance except in the presence of additional symptoms.
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tachycardia

Heart rate over 100 (as high as 240) beats per minute. When it is a normal response to exercise or stress, it is no danger to healthy people, but when it originates elsewhere, it is an arrhythmia. Symptoms include fatigue, faintness, shortness of breath, and feeling the heart thumping. It may subside within minutes or hours with no lasting ill effects, but in serious heart, lung, or circulatory disease it can precede atrial fibrillation or heart attack and demands immediate medical attention. Tachycardias can be treated by an electric shock to the heart, by antiarrhythmic drugs, and by pacemakers.

tachycardia [¦tak·ə¦kärd·ē·ə]

(medicine)

Excessive rapidity of the heart's action.

Tachycardia

an increase in the frequency of cardiac contractions. In some cases it is not perceived subjectively; in others, it is accompanied by palpitations.

A distinction is made between sinus tachycardia, or the accelerated generation of impulses in the sinus node of the heart, and paroxysmal tachycardia. Sinus tachycardia, manifested by contractions generally ranging between 90 and 120 per minute, may be caused by such physiological factors as increased environmental temperature, physical and mental tension, or the ingestion of food. Sinus tachycardia may also be caused by such pathological states as fever, anemia, diffuse toxic goiter, heart failure, and neurasthenia. Nervous and humoral influences on the heart, such as adrenalin and thyroxine, are important contributing factors in the genesis of sinus tachycardia. The accelerated rhythm of cardiac contractions may have an unfavorable effect on metabolism in the myocardium and on blood circulation. When tachycardia is a symptom of disease, the underlying disease is treated.

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Epidemiology of sepsis syndrome in 8 academic medical centers: Academic Medical Center Consortium Sepsis Project Working Group.

Recognizing and managing severe sepsis: a common and deadly threat by McCollam, Jill Shwed / Southern Medical Journal

Sepsis syndrome and failure to institute treatment with antifungal drugs (the latter occurred mainly in preterminal hematology patients) were independent predictors of death.

Active surveillance for candidemia, Australia by Sorrell, Tania / Emerging Infectious Diseases

Among the CLAL studies, 10 were limited to patients meeting the criteria of sepsis syndrome (SS),[64] and this subgroup was compared with the other CLAL studies (non-SS studies).

Concordance of Endotoxemia With Gram-Negative Bacteremia by Hurley, James C. / Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

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