How high of a heart rate is considered Tachycardia?

April 5, 2005

Hello! And thank for everyone's help when I ask if Tachycardia was

common in Mito kids. Joey has been on his Event monitor for one week

now. We have caught 4 episodes. 2 @ 158, 1 @ 159 and 1 @ 160. My

nurse at school said that sounded pretty high.

Does any one know what the levels are for determining Tachycardia?

Does his sound high?

Thanks Tamara

April 5, 2005

Hi Tamara,

Determining if a heart rate is tachycardia depends on several factors:

1) the age of the child and 2) the activity level (what was the child

doing) at the time and 3) the rhythm during the rate. If the child

was at rest, those values are high. If the child is running, playing,

excited, those rates may be considered normal. Another factor they

consider is the medications the child is taking. Some medications

slow the heart rate, if the child is taking one of those medications

and the rate is somewhat rapid, at rest, it may be abnormal. Knowing

what the rhythm was is almost as important as knowing the rate. A

rate of 150 may be normal with activity is the rhythm is something

called sinus. It would be abnormal if the rate was 150 and the rhythm

was SVT or VT. In other words, you don't have enough information to

know for certain if those rates were normal or abnormal.

April 5, 2005

Im not sure of the normals for a child, as i know they can be a little

higher than for adults...

at 10 I had a resting heart rate of 120, and was told that was quite

high... (considered tachycardic).

sorry i dont have much input, but i would suspect those numbers would

be considered tachycardia...

>

> Hello! And thank for everyone's help when I ask if Tachycardia was

> common in Mito kids. Joey has been on his Event monitor for one

week

> now. We have caught 4 episodes. 2 @ 158, 1 @ 159 and 1 @ 160. My

> nurse at school said that sounded pretty high.

> Does any one know what the levels are for determining Tachycardia?

> Does his sound high?

> Thanks Tamara

April 5, 2005

I'm not sure but it sounds high. When Sheldon is dehydrated in

the hospital, his is usually that high. He's 3.

Hello! And thank for everyone's

help when I ask if Tachycardia was

common in Mito kids. Joey has been on his Event monitor for one

week

now. We have caught 4 episodes. 2 @ 158, 1 @ 159 and 1 @

160. My

nurse at school said that sounded pretty high.

Does any one know what the levels are for determining

Tachycardia?

Does his sound high?

Thanks Tamara

Please contact mito-owner with any problems or

questions.

April 5, 2005

Asenath regularly runs at that rate and has been for several years.

Because she doesn't have any signs of heart failure or issues, the docs

haven't made a big deal out of it. Her already being so high normally is

why when ill she shoots up to 200+ and really worries me. Hope your case is

the same. Nothing to worry about that is...

See www.caringbridge.org/ia/mitomomof9 and www.heartbeatsformito.org (a

photo look into Mito)

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