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Physiology & Medicine / Re: What causes the heart to miss a beat?
« on: 13/02/2005 18:08:14 »
There are meds to treat cardiac irritability, but most times it's not treated unless it's causing symptoms other than discomfort. In other words, unless it causes a problem with your heart rhythm, it's generally not treated. All of us have some PVC's in the course of the day. In the ICU, we don't get alarmed unless they're consistently more than six a minute.