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What Is The Treatment For Heart Palpitations?

Strange issue -- I keep skipping very random heart beats, followed by no chest pain but constantly, daily, I seem to have sudden hard 'whacking' hard heart beats in my chest seemingly randomly. Is this an issue I should see a doctor for, even though my mother complains of having the same thing most of her life, however, not as frequent as myself?
posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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Hi,
Welcome, this is Dr Sameer, cardiologist.
Skipped heart beat could be in form of premature ventricular contraction (PVC), which are premature contraction from a normal part of heart or could be more serious arrhythmia in form of Atrial Fibrillation.
For the diagnosis, you need to do a ECG at the time of this skipped heart beat. If the duration of these skipped beats are short enough to reach a nearby hospital, we advice our patients for a 24 hr ECG monitoring called Holter Monitoring.
The treatment will be as per the report of above tests. So get these tests done soon.
Thanks
Take care
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What Is The Treatment For Heart Palpitations?

Hi, Welcome, this is Dr Sameer, cardiologist. Skipped heart beat could be in form of premature ventricular contraction (PVC), which are premature contraction from a normal part of heart or could be more serious arrhythmia in form of Atrial Fibrillation. For the diagnosis, you need to do a ECG at the time of this skipped heart beat. If the duration of these skipped beats are short enough to reach a nearby hospital, we advice our patients for a 24 hr ECG monitoring called Holter Monitoring. The treatment will be as per the report of above tests. So get these tests done soon. Thanks Take care