Ventricular tachycardia??

What indicates VT on an ECG? What are the signs and how is it treated. Is it a must to have an ICP? or can medicine just help? What is the average speed of the heart during an episode of VT? Docs and nurses and EMTs please answer or anyone who experiences VT. Thanks

V tach is most certainly always treated!! there are many kinds of tachycardia. sinus tach is where all beats are regular and normal but just faster than they should, junctional tachycardia shows changes on the EKG and the rate is usually 101-250,supravetricular tachycardia (atrial tachycardia) is where the atrium are contracting too fast rate usually 160-300 they treat that with meds , and ventricular tachycardia is where the ventricules are contracting too fast and this is a medical emergency which requires defiberlation. (with the paddles, you know clear!! shock) v tach is not really a heart beat, when someone is in v tach you can't feel a pulse, you can't identify any of the components on an EKG, the heart is fibrillating, not really beating. an icp does not really have anything to do with it. an icp is an intercranial pressure monitor for your brain.

The indications are most often inverted T-waves and it indicates a history pf possible cardiac eschemia. Unless it remains as a rate issue, V-tach isn't treated. If a person is continuously experiencing runs of V-tach, lidocaine may be given or a defibrillator (or ICD) may be surgically inserted to help the heart jump back into rhythm.
V-tach can be a ventricular rate from 50-220.