Sustained ventricular tachycardias

Patients with ventricular tachycardia should be evaluated by an electrophysiologist. An assessment of their underlying cardiac status should be undertaken and medical therapy and/or implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy should be initiated as clinically indicated.

Patients implanted with an ICD require routine device checks, and need to be re-evaluated promptly if symptoms of the tachycardia recur, or if the device delivers a shock. Many routine device checks can be performed via remote monitoring. Monitoring is daily and 'virtual' (remote) device reports are usually created every 3 months.