Key result
Young adult with paroxysmal tachycardia demonstrates unusual voluntary control over his fast ectopic rhythm.
Why the study?
Voluntary control of paroxysmal tachycardia is rarely observed and not well understood, warranting detailed reporting of such cases.
Case Report (n=1)
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This case report documents a rare instance of a patient with voluntary control over paroxysmal tachycardia.
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Single case of voluntary tachycardia control warrants no practice change; leaves open hypothesis for behavioral interventions in select patients.
In view of the fact that the subject of this report possessed to a remarkable degree the power of control over his pathologic rhythm, the following instance of paroxysmal tachycardia in a young adult seemed to us of sufficient interest to report in some detail. It is greatly to be regretted that we had but a single opportunity to observe the individual for a few hours, as he left the city permanently the day after these observations were recorded. Apart from the control of these ectopic rhythms occasionally seen following vagus stimulation either by direct pressure or reflexly as a result of various methods of clinical procedure, their voluntary control is seldom met with. Although it is impossible in the present instance to determine with absolute exactness the means by which such voluntary inhibition is exercised, we have assumed that our use of the term "voluntary control" implies essentially the
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EDWARD PERKINS CARTER (1918) conducted a case report in Paroxysmal tachycardia (n=1). Voluntary control of fast rhythm was evaluated. A young adult with paroxysmal tachycardia demonstrated an unusual ability to voluntarily control his fast ectopic rhythm.
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