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Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute uses mechanical circulatory support including ventricular assist devices (VADs), or heart pumps, to support patients with intractable congestive heart failure.

Ventricular tachycardia is a rapid heart rate. It begins in your heart’s lower chambers, or ventricles. Experts usually define ventricular tachycardia as three or more heartbeats in a row, at a rate of more than 120 beats a minute. If ventricular tachycardia lasts for more than a few seconds at a time, it can become life threatening.