can a person have venticular tachacardia when they are sleeping?

Answer 1

V-tach can occur at any time. It can be caused by a structural defect such as scarring in the heart muscle fibers. The most common cause is an electrolyte imbalance, like your potassium or magnesium levels. Should go over with your doc any meds your taking INCLUDING vitamins or OTC drugs. Bearing down during a bowel movement or very forceful coughing would actually cause the opposite reaction. It stimulates the vagal nerve. When someone "vagals out" the heart rate drops and then they pass out. Learn to take your pulse correctly and if it goes to high (you would feel palpitations, probably nauseous, and short of breath) go to the ER...coughing along the way.

Answer 2

Yep. You can have ventricular tachycardia when you are doing anything. Mostly happens when you are bearing down for a bowel movement.
Thats why lots of people fall off the toilet and die, then are found in the bathroom floor.

Answer 3

Yes, V-tach can happen at any time. If you are experiening this you really should see a doctor as V-tach could lead to worse things such as V-fib and death.

Answer 4

Yes but it would probably wake them up when they felt any palpatations, and depending on how fast the heart is actually beating. Ive had VT and started to wake up when my heart rate got to about 140bpm.

Answer 5

yes, you can have VTach while sleeping. If you are concerned if this is happening to you, ask your cardiologist if you can wear a holter monitor, or event monitor. Or a tilt table study and more invasively, a electrophysiology study.

Answer 6

Yes ,ventricular tachycardia can occurs and the following research article has interesting results:

Rationale: Sleep-disordered breathing recurrent intermittent hypoxia and sympathetic nervous system activity surges provide the milieu for cardiac arrhythmia development.

Objective: We postulate that the prevalence of nocturnal cardiac arrhythmias is higher among subjects with than without sleep-disordered breathing.

Methods: The prevalence of arrhythmias was compared in two samples of participants from the Sleep Heart Health Study frequency-matched on age, sex, race/ethnicity, and body mass index: (1) 228 subjects with sleep-disordered breathing (respiratory disturbance index >= 30) and (2) 338 subjects without sleep-disordered breathing (respiratory disturbance index < 5).

Results: Atrial fibrillation, nonsustained ventricular tachycardia, and complex ventricular ectopy (nonsustained ventricular tachycardia or bigeminy or trigeminy or quadrigeminy) were more common in subjects with sleep-disordered breathing compared with those without sleep-disordered breathing: 4.8 versus 0.9% (p = 0.003) for atrial fibrillation; 5.3 versus 1.2% (p = 0.004) for nonsustained ventricular tachycardia; 25.0 versus 14.5% (p = 0.002) for complex ventricular ectopy. Compared with those without sleep-disordered breathing and adjusting for age, sex, body mass index, and prevalent coronary heart disease, individuals with sleep-disordered breathing had four times the odds of atrial fibrillation (odds ratio [OR], 4.02; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.03–15.74), three times the odds of nonsustained ventricular tachycardia (OR, 3.40; 95% CI, 1.03–11.20), and almost twice the odds of complex ventricular ectopy (OR, 1.74; 95% CI, 1.11–2.74). A significant relation was also observed between sleep-disordered breathing and ventricular ectopic beats/h (p < 0.0003) considered as a continuous outcome.

Conclusions: Individuals with severe sleep-disordered breathing have two- to fourfold higher odds of complex arrhythmias than those without sleep-disordered breathing even after adjustment for potential confounders.

Answer 7

Most certainly!!

Answer 8

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Answer 9

yes it is possible.

Answer 10

Sure, why not.