A 26-year-old client is returning for diagnostic follow-up. Her Holter monitor strip reveals a heart rate with normal conduction but with a rate consistently above 105 beats/minutes. What type of dysrhythmia would you expect the cardiologist to diagnose?

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4 June, 05:43

A 26-year-old client is returning for diagnostic follow-up. Her Holter monitor strip reveals a heart rate with normal conduction but with a rate consistently above 105 beats/minutes. What type of dysrhythmia would you expect the cardiologist to diagnose?

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Lexi Flynn · Answer 1

Sinus Tachycardia

Explanation:

"Tachycardia is a common type of heart rhythm disorder (arrhythmia) in which the heart beats faster than normal while at rest.

It's normal for your heart rate to rise during exercise or as a physiological response to stress, trauma or illness (sinus tachycardia). But in tachycardia the heart beats faster than normal in the upper or lower chambers of the heart or both while at rest.

[ ... ] Tachycardia occurs when an abnormality in the heart produces rapid electrical signals that quicken the heart rate, which is normally about 60 to 100 beats a minute at rest."

Reference: Mayo Clinic Staff. "Tachycardia." Mayo Clinic, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 8 Mar. 2018