Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia

Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT) is a very fast heart rate that happens. It doesn't happen all the time, and when someone is not experiencing a PSVT, their heart rate is normal. The "electrical current" in your hear is supposed to move in a cyclical way, but for people with PSVT's, it short circuits, so instead of making a full circuit it just goes back and forth, causing the heart rate to increase. When someone has PSVT's there are a few ways to treat it, you can take medication, just live with them and not do anything for them, or have invasive heart surgery. They are not fatal, and can be lived with fairly easily, though doing something about it, like taking medication or getting surgery, would make life easier.

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