Tachycardia and trembling | Tachycardia

Tachycardia and trembling A common cause of heart palpitations and tremors is psychogenic hyperventilation.Pain, anxiety, nervousness or other psychological stress can lead to a pathological increase in respiratory minute volume by decoupling respiratory regulation from the usual influences of chemical respiratory stimuli in the blood and from the effects of the acid-base balance. As a … Tachycardia and trembling | Tachycardia

Tachycardia and alcohol | Tachycardia

Tachycardia and alcohol Tachycardia is a so-called presentation symptom of the alcohol disease, which means that a newly occurring tachycardia can be a sign of excessive alcohol consumption for the physician, if other factors indicate an alcohol problem. However, tachycardia can also occur when alcohol consumption is increased only once. Alcohol blocks the formation of … Tachycardia and alcohol | Tachycardia

Tachycardia and shortness of breath | Tachycardia

Tachycardia and shortness of breath Breathlessness or shortness of breath is referred to as dyspnoea in the technical terminology and is defined as “subjective sensation of having to increase the activity of breathing“. The dyspnoea is classified by the WHO into severity levels I-IV. Symptoms of shortness of breath are accelerated breathing (tachypnea) with a … Tachycardia and shortness of breath | Tachycardia

Tachycardia at night | Tachycardia

Tachycardia at night If tachycardia occurs preferentially in a supine position, this may be associated with position-related pressure changes on receptors and nerve connections. The range of causes for simultaneous occurrence of both symptoms is broad and can be due to psychological triggers in addition to organ-specific diseases. If the tachycardia persists for a certain … Tachycardia at night | Tachycardia

Therapy of the tachycardia | Tachycardia

Therapy of the tachycardia Tachycardia is treated depending on the underlying cause. So-called antiarrhythmic drugs are available for drug therapy, which influence the electrical potential in the heart muscle cells and thus prevent cardiac arrhythmia. Depending on the type of tachycardia, catheter ablation, external cardioversion (for atrial fibrillation) or the preventive implantation of a defibrillator … Therapy of the tachycardia | Tachycardia

Tachycardia

General information Tachycardia, also known as paroxysmal tachycardia, is known to almost everyone. A tachycardia is defined by a heart rate of more than 100 beats per minute. Usually, the palpitations start very suddenly, then you can feel your heartbeat all the way down to your throat or in your entire chest (so-called palpitations). In … Tachycardia

Side effects of Lamotrigine

Introduction Lamotrigine is a drug that belongs to the group of so-called anticonvulsants used to treat convulsive disorders such as epilepsy. It belongs to the newer anticonvulsants and is used mainly for focal seizure disorders, i.e. seizures that are restricted to a certain area of the brain. Lamotrigine is characterized by its comparatively low harmfulness … Side effects of Lamotrigine

CRPS: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

CRPS is a neurologic-orthopedic-traumatologic disorder occurring after soft tissue or nerve injury. It is often associated with fractures of extremities. The namesake of the older name for type I CRPS, “Sudeck’s disease,” is its discoverer, the Hamburg surgeon Paul Sudeck (1866 to 1945). What is CRPS? CRPS (complex regional pain syndrome) is pain that occurs … CRPS: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment