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 reevaluated 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.