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Ventricular Tachycardia
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Ventricular tachycardia is a fast, regular beating of the ventricles that may last for only a few seconds or for much longer. A few beats of ventricular tachycardia often don’t cause problems, but ventricular tachycardia episodes that last for more than just a few seconds can be dangerous. Ventricular tachycardia can turn into other, more dangerous arrhythmias, such as ventricular fibrillation (v-fib). 

V-fib occurs when disorganized electrical signals make the ventricles quiver instead of pump normally. Without the ventricles pumping blood out to the body, a person will lose consciousness within seconds and will die within minutes if not treated. To prevent death, the condition must be treated immediately with defibrillation, an electric shock to the heart. V-fib may happen during or after a heart attack, or in a heart that is already weak because of another condition. Health experts think that most of the sudden cardiac deaths that occur every year are due to v-fib. 
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