Non-Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia (NSVT) is one of the most common problems encountered in modern clinical cardiology. The term, defined as 3 or more consecutive beats arising below the atrioventricular node with a rate >120 beats/min and lasting less than 30 seconds. Simply put, these are short bursts of an accelerated heartbeat.
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