Sinus tachycardia

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• Synonyms

  • Tachycardia

• Causes

  • Exercise
  • Anxiety
  • Emotional stress
  • Pregnancy
  • Fever
  • Thyrotoxicosis
  • Anaemia
  • Heart failure
  • Electrolyte imbalance
  • Sympathomimetic
  • Vasodilator
  • Peripheral vasodilatation
  • Alcohol
  • Caffeine
  • Cocaine
  • Thyroid Crisis
  • Arteriovenous malformation
  • Erythroderma
  • Liver failure
  • Hypercapnia
  • Decreased lung function
  • Phaeochromocytoma
  • Septicaemia
  • Amphetamine
  • Thiamine deficiency
  • Methanol
  • Febrile non-haemolytic transfusion reaction
  • Autonomic dysreflexia
  • Metabolic acidosis
  • Congestive heart failure triad

• Effects

  • Palpitation

• Parents

  • Supraventricular arrhythmia
  • Pulse sign