Ventricular Tachycardia

**Semantic type:** Disease or Syndrome

**Definition:** A disorder characterized by an electrocardiographic finding of three or more consecutive complexes of ventricular origin with a rate greater than a certain threshold (100 or 120 beats per minute are commonly used). The QRS complexes are wide and have an abnormal morphology. (CDISC)

**Synonyms:** - Ventricular tachycardia